# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/henri-focillon
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:18:40.275Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/henri-focillon"
name: "Henri Focillon"
slug: "henri-focillon"
description: "Henri Focillon 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."
tagline: "French art historian (1881-1943)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Henri_Focillon.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1881-09-07"
deathDate: "1943-03-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           11.831968
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Henri Focillon"
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    title: "آنری فوکیلون"
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    title: "Անրի Ֆոսիյոն"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump