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Name
  
Furio Piccirilli

Died
  
1949

Education
  
Accademia di San Luca


Furio Piccirilli

Furio Piccirilli (March 14, 1869 – 1949) American sculptor and one of the Piccirilli Brothers.

Furio Piccirilli 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition Art Furio Piccirilli Nude Naked

Piccirilli was born in Massa, Italy into a family with a long tradition of carving and sculpting. Like his older brother Attilio he was educated at the Accademia di San Luca of Rome. With his brother Attilio he immigrated to England in the mid-1880s and then moved to the United States in 1888. With their father and brothers he helped establish the Piccirilli Brothers carving business.

Furio Piccirilli H211 Young Mother with Child Furio Piccirilli sculptor

He was a well known and respected sculptor aside from being known in connection with his family firm. He was "considered the most creative and the best modeler" of all the brothers.

Piccirilli returned to Italy to get married in 1921, and then moved there permanently in 1926. He died in Rome in 1949.

Selected work

  • California State Building arch, Balboa Park, San Diego, California 1915
  • figure of Portia for the Martha Cook Building at the University of Michigan, 1915
  • Four figures for the Manitoba Legislative Building, Lord Selkirk, Marquis of Dufferin, General Wolfe and Sieur de La Vérendrye, 1920
  • Figures of Ethan Allen, Isaac Shelby, John Stark, John Adams and John Hancock at the Daughters of the American Revolution Museum in Washington D.C.
  • Seal, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1927. Another carving is located in Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina.
  • Penguin, National Academy of Design, Washington D.C.

    • References

    Furio Piccirilli Wikipedia
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