Henri Focillon

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]

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)

References

  1. ↑ 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).
  2. ↑ Works by or about Henri Focillon at Internet Archive
  3. ↑ Henri Focillon, 1881-1943< at classiques.uqac.ca
  4. ↑ Kubler, George (1945). "Henri Focillon, 1881-1943". College Art Journal. 4 (2): 71–74. JSTOR 772442.
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