Henri Focillon

Multi tool useHenri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian.
Director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Professor of Art History at the University of Lyon, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the Sorbonne, at the Collège de France and then in the United States, where he went into exile and taught at Yale University. Poet, printmaker, and a teacher without equal, Henri Focillon formed generations of art historians including George Kubler. He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.
Partial bibliography
Vie des formes (1934, "The Life of Forms")
- Éloge de la main
- Benvenuto Cellini
Medieval Art
Art des sculpteurs romans (1932)
- Art d'occident 1 : Moyen Âge roman et gothique
Art d'occident 2 : Moyen Âge gothique (1938)
Moyen Age. Survivances et réveils (1943)
Piero della Francesca (1951)
L'An mil (1952)
Painting
La peinture au XIXe et XXe siècles (1927-1928, "Painting in the 19th and 20th Centuries")
De Callot à Lautrec: Perspectives de l’art français ("From Callot to Lautrec: Perspectives on French Art")
Prints
Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1918)
East Asia
L'art bouddhique (1921, "Buddhist Art")
Hokusai (1914)
External links
Works by or about Henri Focillon at Internet Archive
Henri Focillon, 1881-1943 at classiques.uqac.ca
- http://www.jstor.org/pss/772442
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