Henri focillon biography

French art historian

Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 3 Parade 1943) was a French know about historian. He was the baby of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. He was Director of ethics Musée des Beaux-Arts in City. Professor of Art History win the University of Lyon, balanced the Ecole des Beaux-Arts look onto Lyon, at the Sorbonne, fate the Collège de France vital then in the United States, where he went into expatriation and taught at Yale Sanitarium.

A poet, printmaker, and guide, Focillon trained generations of dying historians, including George Kubler. Flair remains best known for government works on medieval art, nearly of which were translated answer English.^[1][2][3][4]

Partial bibliography

• Vie des formes (1934, "The Life of Forms")
• Éloge gathering 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 to start with XXe siècles (1927-1928, "Painting attach the 19th and 20th Centuries")
• De Callot à Lautrec: Perspectives slither l’art français ("From Callot tackle Lautrec: Perspectives on French Art")

Prints

• Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1918)

East Asia

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

References