Pierre Bontemps
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Pierre Bontemps (ca 1507 — 1568), a French sculptor known for his funeral monuments, was, with Germain Pilon, one of the pre-eminent sculptors of the French Renaissance.
He executed mpost of the bas-reliefs on the tomb of François I, representing the French victories at the battle of Marignan and the battle of Cérisoles.
His also are the statues of the King, Queen Claude, the Dauphin, and Louis XII and Anne of Brittany on Louis' tom,b in the Basilica of Saint-Denis. The figures from the tomb of Charles de Maigny, (ca 1556, one illustrated) are conserved in the Musée du Louvre.
