Name Henri Focillon Parents Victor-Louis Focillon | Role Poet | |
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Died March 3, 1943, New Haven, Connecticut, United States Books The life of forms in art, Vie des formes, Vita delle forme |
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.
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