Schapiro and Focillon
Walter Cahn
Meyer Schapiro and Henri Focillon were both men possessed of a generous sensibility progressive political orientation. Their major works on Romanesque sculpture, which appeared in 1931, exhibit similar emphasis formal principles relative indifference to questions religious meaning. In spite this convergence attitudes interest, or perhaps because them, they never achieved harmonious working relationship. This paper describes seeks illuminate what is known their interaction, basing itself an exchange several heretofore unpublished documents.
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