Thierry Zéphir


Thierry Zéphir is a French research engineer at the Guimet Museum, and a specialist in Khmer art and the Indianised world.

Career

Thierry Zéphir is a former student of Albert Le Bonheur, and a graduate of the École du Louvre where he now teaches the arts of India and the Indianized world. Since 1991, he has regularly participated in the training of students at the Faculty of Archaeology of the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh. He is also the author of numerous books and scholarly articles.
He curated several exhibitions including "Angkor et dix siècles d'art khmer", which for the first time brought together the masterpieces of Khmer sculpture from the Guimet Museum in Paris and the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh; "Trésors d'art du Vietnam, la sculpture du Champa" ; and "L'Âge d'or de l'Inde classique, l'Empire des Gupta".
In 2019, he conceived the illustrated catalogue for Buddha, The Golden Legend exhibition curated by, which took place at the Guimet Museum in Paris.

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