 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.Poet, printmaker, and a teacher without equal, Henri Focillon formed generations of art historians including George Kubler.He remains best known for his works on medieval art, most of which were translated into English.