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...
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and that Gothic sculpture, in the words of the French art historian Henri Focillon, "was the expression of piety" while also "cherish[ing] humanity; it...
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Warsaw – 28 March 1982, Paris) was a French art historian. A disciple of Henri Focillon since 1929, shortly after his arrival in France, and naturalized French...
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term was first used by the 19th-century French art historians (notably Henri Focillon and Ferdinand de Lasteyrie) to classify Gothic styles on the basis of...
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participated at the first "Groupe d'Histoire de l'art" led by Emile Mâle and Henri Focillon. These studies would culminate in an influential text Notes sur la peinture...
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visiting scholars at Yale, Marcel Aubert and Henri Focillon. He translated into English the major work of Focillon, La vie des formes (The Life of Forms in...
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arrange a large number of figures on several planes. The art historian Henri Focillon describes the door as follows: The relationship of relief according...
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process, scholars (with notable contributions by Robert de Lasteyrie and Henri Focillon) changed the original definition of Romanesque as a sub-Roman or Roman-like...
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worthy of the work: sensitive, proud and an almost excessive modesty." Henri Focillon described Bracquemond in 1928 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of...
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Sédille Hermann Muthesius Frank Lloyd Wright Hans Auer Konrad Fiedler Henri Focillon Paul Frankl Adolf von Hildebrand Emil Kaufmann Theodor Lipps Alois Riegl...
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