Henri Focillon , born in 1881 and died in 1943 is a historian of art French.

Wire of the engraver Victor-Louis Focillon, he is the Director of the Musée of the Art schools of Lyon. Professor of History of art at the university of Lyon, at the school of the Art schools of Lyon, the Sorbonne, the Collège de France then in the United States where it chose to be exiled. Poet, engraver, Pedagog out-par, Henri Focillon formed of the generations of historians of art, such as André Chastel, Louis Grodecki or Jurgis Baltrusaitis. Guardian figure of the history of art, it questioned as varied fields of the discipline as medieval art, the painting of its time, prehistory or art Japanese.

Often voted by plebiscite as a medievist, Henri Focillon was however a sagacious commentator of the art of his time, student of longitudes distant and examining with penetration his contemporaries (one will consult study Lemoine the Hake, Henri Focillon and painting at the 19th century: the language of space in the catalog of the Lyons exposure mentioned in the critical Bibliography).

Its political commitment, a long time overlooked or held for minor, fact of him a figure impossible to circumvent of a history of art engaged in the name of which he pronounced from the United States a call to the free French (one will consult in particular the contributions of François-Rene Martin, Annamaria Ducci and Alice Thomine in the catalog of the Lyons exposure mentioned in the critical Bibliography).

The exposure which was held in 2004 with the Musée of the Art schools of Lyon made it possible to revalue the importance of Henri Focillon, actor eminently important of the history of art French and international.

Nonexhaustive bibliography

* Life of the forms (1934)

* Praise of the hand

* Benvenuto Cellini

* Raphaël

History of painting

* painting with XIXe and XXe centuries (1927-1928)

* Stone-block with Lautrec. prospects for French art

History of engraving

* Giovanni-battista Piranesi (1918)

Art of the Far East

* Buddhist art (1921)

* Hokusai (1924)

History of medieval art

* Art of the Romance sculptors (1932)

* Art of occident 1: The Romance Middle Ages and Gothic

* Art of occident 2: The Gothic Middle Ages (1938)

* the Middle Ages. Survivals and alarm clocks (1943)

* Piero della Francesca (1951)

* the Year millet (1952)

critical bibliography

* life of the forms. Henri Focillon and arts , Paris and Ghent, INHA, Snoeck Decaju & Zoon, 2004.

* Lemoine Hake, Photography and cinema at Henri Focillon: to illustrate, seriate, diffuse and teach. The renewal of a discipline , acts of the international Congress of history of art, Montreal, 22 August 27th, 2004, review RACAR (2007)

* Colin Lemoine, the most severe practice of the history of art does not prevent the interbreeding': Henri Focillon cartographer of the history of Article , acts of the international symposium Henri Focillon , Paris, 11 March 12th, 2004, and Lyon, March 13rd, 2004, Paris, Editions Kimé (2007)

* Lemoine Hake, Language, languages and dialects: the writing of the Latinity at Henri Focillon. How to escape the systems in the code of practice? acts of the international symposium Henri Focillon E Italia , Ferrare, 16 April 17th, 2004. Ferrare: Editrice Lettere (2007) put

* Annamaria Ducci, Henri Focillon and the history. Reflections as from the Year Millet , Re-examined art (2005)

* Annamria Ducci, Jamais we tested a more high intellectual sense of security only in front of these walls: it Piero della Francesca di Henri Focillon , Bulletin of the AHAI (2004)

* To read again Focillon (1998)

* Henri Focillon, Books for a time (1986)

external bonds

• Life of the forms, the Praise of the hand in the numeric library the Traditional ones of social sciences .
• Henri Focillon in the Dictionary off Art Historians of Lee Sorensen and Monique Daniels, in Durham (NC).
• the program of the conference Henri Focillon to the Museum of the Art schools of Lyon, 2004 (site INHA).

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