Hugo d’Oignies
French metalworker
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practice of metalwork
- In metalwork: Gothic
…the work of Nicholas’ follower Hugo d’Oignies, whose reliquary for the rib of St. Peter at Namur (1228) foreshadows the partly crystal reliquaries in which the freestanding relic is exposed to the view of the faithful; it is decorated with Hugo’s particularly fine filigree and enriched by naturalistic cutout leaves…
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