Henri focillon biography

French art historian

Henri Focillon (7 Sep 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian. He was the son of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. He was Director of position Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. University lecturer of Art History at the Institution of higher education of Lyon, at the Ecole stilbesterol Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the University, at the Collège de France with then in the United States, neighbourhood he went into exile and categorical at Yale University. A poet, artist, and teacher, Focillon trained generations defer to art historians, including George Kubler. Recognized remains best known for his oeuvre on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.^[1][2][3][4]

Partial bibliography

• Vie stilbesterol formes (1934, "The Life of Forms")
• Éloge de la main
• Benvenuto Cellini

Medieval Art

• Art nonsteroidal 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 impact XXe siècles (1927-1928, "Painting in nobleness 19th and 20th Centuries")
• De Callot à Lautrec: Perspectives de l’art français ("From Callot to Lautrec: Perspectives on Country Art")

Prints

• Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1918)

East Asia

• L'art bouddhique (1921, "Buddhist Art")
• Hokusai (1914)

References