He is considered the father of modern art in Thailand and was instrumental in the founding of today's Silpakorn University.

[1] Feroci was invited to Thailand in 1923 to teach Western sculpture at the Fine Arts Department of the Ministry of Palace Affairs.

[citation needed] When Italy surrendered to the Allies during World War II, Feroci changed his name and became a Thai national in 1944 to avoid arrest by the occupying Japanese army.

Previously estranged from his wife in Italy, in his later years he married one of his Thai students.

He is buried in the Cimitero Evangelico degli Allori in the southern suburb of Florence, Galluzzo (Italy).