Henri Focillon

Henri Focillon (7 September 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian.

Director of the Musee 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 College de France and then in the United States, where he went into exile and taught at Yale University. Poet, printmaker, and a teacher without equal, Henri Focillon formed generations of art historians including George Kubler. He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.