Renier de Huy
Illustration — Baptism of Christ on the Liège font. • Illustration — Another view of the font Renier de Huy (or Rainer of Huy) (also Reiner, van, etc. In any combination) was a 12th-century metalworker and sculptor usually attributed with the major masterpiece of Mosan art, the baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège in Liège, Belgium of 1107–18. Some recent scholarship questions this attribution.
Renier de Huy
Jean-Pol GRANDMONT · CC BY 2.5
- Born
- 1100 · Huy.
- Died
- 1150 · Huy.
- Occupation
- goldsmith · sculptor · statue founder
- Known for
- Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church and Liège
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Born at Huy in 1100, died in Huy in 1150.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Liège. Works named in the authority record are Baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège. Work by Renier de Huy is recorded in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Schnütgen Museum.
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