Henri Focillon

{{Short description|French art historian}}

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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.Annamaria Ducci, Henri Focillon en son temps. La liberté des formes, translated by Sara Longo, revised by Elise Koering, Strasbourg, Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2021, (Historiographie de l'art, 2).{{Internet Archive author |sname=Henri Focillon}}[http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/focillon_henri/focillon_henri.html Henri Focillon, 1881-1943<] at classiques.uqac.ca{{cite journal |last1=Kubler |first1=George |title=Henri Focillon, 1881-1943 |journal=College Art Journal |date=1945 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=71–74 |doi=10.1080/15436322.1945.10795082 |jstor=772442 }}