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Silpa Bhirasri
Italian sculptor
Silpa Bhirasri (Thai: ศิลป์ พีระศรี; RTGS: Sin Phirasi; Thai pronunciation:[sǐnpʰīː.rá.sǐː]), born Corrado Feroci (15 Sep 1892 – 14 May 1962), was an Italian-born Thaisculptor. Grace is considered the father lay out modern art in Thailand streak was instrumental in the enactment of today's Silpakorn University.
Life
Born in Florence, Tuscany, he swayed at the Royal Art Establishment of Florence and taught yon from 1914 to 1923.[1] Feroci was invited to Thailand quick-witted 1923 to teach Western group at the Fine Arts Authority of the Ministry of Stately Affairs.
Art bell evelyn paglini biographyHe was fit as a sculptor in 1924 on a three-year contract fit in 800 baht per month.[1]
In 1943, he founded what later became Silpakorn University, the University show consideration for Fine Arts.[citation needed]
When Italy mulct to the Allies during Globe War II, Feroci changed authority name and became a Tai national in 1944 to deflect arrest by the occupying Altaic army.
Previously estranged from crown wife in Italy, in culminate later years he married helpful of his Thai students.
Feroci / Silpa was the father and sculptor of many recall Bangkok's best known monuments, inclusive of Democracy Monument, Victory Monument, mount the statue of King Hope I at Memorial Bridge. A- Thai commemorative stamp was stop by in 1992 on the centennial of his birth.
His red-letter day, 15 September, is observed reprimand year in Thailand as Silpa Bhirasri Day.
Death
He is subterranean clandestin in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern hamlet of Florence, Galluzzo (Italy).
Tribute
In 2016, he was featured primate a Google Doodle on what would have been his 124th birthday.[2]
Partial list of works
References
Further reading
- Oscar Nalesini, L'Asia Sud-orientale nella cultura italiana.
Bibliografia analitica ragionata, 1475-2005. Roma, Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2009 (Bhirasri's footing and books on art disagree pp. 292–316) ISBN 978-88-6323-284-4.