Filadelfo Simi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian painter and sculptor (1849-1923)
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1849
Place of Birth: Levigliani, Italy
Date of Death: 05-Jan-1923
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Filadelfo Simi
- Filadelfo Simi (February 11, 1849 in Versilia – January 5, 1923 in Florence) was an Italian painter and sculptor. He was born in Versilia in Tuscany, and resident in Florence.
- He first attended the School of Fine Arts at Seravezza, but then from 1869 to 1873 attended the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence.
- One patron during these years was the engineer Angiolo Vegni. At the 1873 Promotrice, he exhibited a La giovinezza dell’Alfieri.
- From 1874 to 1878, he lived mainly in Paris, where he frequented the studio of Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂ´me.
- During 1876, he traveled through Spain with the painter Alden Weir.
- In 1878, at the Exposition Artistique of the Paris Salon, he exhibited a Forest of Fontainebleau.
- He also paints the realistic Portrait of Old Lady, now found in the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in the Palazzo Pitti. He returns to Italy and participated in exhibitions in Florence.
- In 1881, he displays a canvas titled The Phtisic Woman (La Tisica; depicting a woman afflicted with tuberculosis).
- In 1883, he was nominated a Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy; he became Honorary Academic In Florence (1884), Bologna (1888) and the Brera Academy in Milan (1895).
- In 1886, he opened a school for artists.
- In 1888 he became professor of the Scuola del Nudo at the Florentine Academy. He was not prolific, and dedicated himself to a few paintings per year.
- At the 1885 Promotrice of Florence, he exhibited a Studio dal vero, and at 1887 at the Venetian Exposizione Nazionale Artistica, he had a painting titled: l'l riflesso, and a Portrait of his parents.
- The former painting would later be awarded a gold medal at an 1888 Munich Exhibition and in 1893 at Florentine Annual Exposition of Fine Arts, a grand prize worth 5000 Lire.
- In Bologna in 1888, among the four canvases exhibited were: Riposo, San Girolamo, and Neruccia and Jettatura. At the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, his diptych was awarded a bronze medal.
- He also was a sculptor, sending in 1908 a large marble statue commissioned for a chapel in Halifax, Canada by the rector of the Accademia Monte San Vincenzo.
- That same year, he sent a Monument of Garibaldi to the Italian Community of Porto Alegre.Simi's daughter Nerina Simi (1890–1987) was a prominent art teacher in Florence.Simi designed and built a house for himself and his daughter in Scala di Stazzema in the Province of Lucca, the Studio Simi, which after her death was opened as a museum of their work.
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