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.
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