Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 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.[1][2][3][4]
- ^ Annamaria Ducci, Henri Focillon en son temps. La liberté des formes, translated by Sara Longo, revised by Elise Koering, Strasbourg, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2021, (Historiographie de l'art, 2).
- ^ Works by or about Henri Focillon at the Internet Archive
- ^ Henri Focillon, 1881-1943< at classiques.uqac.ca
- ^ Kubler, George (1945). "Henri Focillon, 1881-1943". College Art Journal. 4 (2): 71–74. doi:10.1080/15436322.1945.10795082. JSTOR 772442.