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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

arrange a large number of figures on several planes. The art historian Henri Focillon describes the door as follows: The relationship of relief according...

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...

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...

Sédille Hermann Muthesius Frank Lloyd Wright Hans Auer Konrad Fiedler Henri Focillon Paul Frankl Adolf von Hildebrand Emil Kaufmann Theodor Lipps Alois Riegl...