Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 â 3 March 1943) was a French art historian. He was the son of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. He was 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. A poet, printmaker, and teacher, Focillon trained 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")
* ÃÂloge de la main
* Benvenuto Cellini
Medieval Art
* Art des sculpteurs romans (1932)
* Art d'occident 1 : Moyen ÃÂge roman et gothique
* Art d'occident 2 : Moyen ÃÂge 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 àLautrec: Perspectives de lâÂÂart français ("From Callot to Lautrec: Perspectives on French Art")
Prints
* Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1918)
East Asia
* L'art bouddhique (1921, "Buddhist Art")
* Hokusai (1914)
References