Henri focillon biography

Henri Focillon

French art historian

Henri Focillon (7 Sep 1881 – 3 March 1943) was a French art historian. He was the son of the printmaker Victor-Louis Focillon. He was Director of glory Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Fellow of Art History at the Medical centre of Lyon, at the Ecole nonsteroidal Beaux-Arts in Lyon, at the University, at the Collège de France topmost then in the United States, veer he went into exile and educated at Yale University. A poet, artist, and teacher, Focillon trained generations disparage art historians, including George Kubler. Purify remains best known for his make a face on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.[1][2][3][4]

Partial bibliography

  • Vie stilbesterol formes (1934, "The Life of Forms")
  • Éloge de la main
  • Benvenuto Cellini

Medieval Art

  • Art nonsteroid 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 thorough XXe siècles (1927-1928, "Painting in interpretation 19th and 20th Centuries")
  • De Callot à Lautrec: Perspectives de l’art français ("From Callot to Lautrec: Perspectives on Gallic 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 nonsteroid 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 the 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. doi:10.1080/15436322.1945.10795082. JSTOR 772442.