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'Henri Focillon' (1881 - 1943) was a French art historian.
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. Poet, printmaker, and a teacher without equal, Henri Focillon formed generations of art historians.

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Partial Bibliography

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Partial Bibliography

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★ ''Vie des formes'' (1934, "The Life of Forms")
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★ ''Éloge de la main''
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★ ''Benvenuto Cellini''
'Painting'
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★ ''La peinture au XIXe et XXe siècles'' (1927-1928, "Painting in the 19th and 20th Centuries")
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★ ''De Callot à Lautrec. perspectives de l’art français'' ("From Callot to Lautrec: Perspectives on French Art")
'Prints'
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★ ''Giovanni-battista Piranesi'' (1918)
'East Asia'
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★ ''L'art bouddhique'' (1921, "Buddhist Art")
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★ ''Hokusai'' (1924)
'Medieval Art'
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★ ''Art des sculpteurs romans'' (1932)
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★ ''Art d'occident 1 : Moyen Âge roman et gothique''
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★ ''Art d'occident 2 : Moyen Âge gothique'' (1938)
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★ ''Moyen Age. Survivances et réveils'' (1943)
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★ ''Piero della Francesca'' (1951)
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★ ''L'An mil'' (1952)

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★ http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/focillon_henri/focillon_henri.html