Memorize these and recognize 44.7% of all Sculpture clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auguste Rodin | 18 | "The Vanquished" was the original title of this Frenchman's famous sculpture "The Age of Bronze" |
| 2 | Michelangelo | 15 | It took three years from 1501 to 1504 for the marble work here to be completed by this artist, but we'd say it was worth the time |
| 3 | Pablo Picasso | 14 | Though it represents a woman, his 5-story Chicago structure has been called a baboon |
| 4 | Frederic Remington | 14 | In 1901 his sculpture "Bronco Buster" was exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo |
| 5 | Henry Moore | 13 | This "hole-y" British sculptor created the "Draped Reclining Figure" for London's Time-Life Building |
| 6 | the Venus de Milo | 12 | This Greek statue, now in the Louvre, may have held an apple in the hand of its missing left arm |
| 7 | David | 8 | A shield was put up around this statue in Florence in 1992 to stop people from knocking off its toes |
| 8 | Gutzon Borglum | 8 | In 1904 this Danish-American sculptor who later thought much bigger in South Dakota gave us "Mares of Diomedes" |
| 9 | Terra Cotta | 7 | 18th C. artist Clodion sculpted nymphs & satyrs from this fired clay whose name is Italian for "baked earth" |
| 10 | bronze | 7 | Though the metal came from Europe, some African sculpture has the alliterative term "Benin" this material |
| 11 | the Statue of Liberty | 7 | It's the largest copper statue in the world |
| 12 | Alexander Calder | 7 | In the 1920s this mobile sculptor worked as an illustrator for the National Police Gazette |
| 13 | Degas | 6 | When his "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" was first exhibited in 1881, it had fabric ballet shoes, a tutu & a wig |
| 14 | Donatello | 5 | His bronze David from the 1430s was the first nude statue of the Renaissance |
| 15 | Christo | 5 | This artist gets all wrapped up in his work; he draped the Pont-Neuf with 440,000 square feet of fabric |
| 16 | Jean-Antoine Houdon | 5 | This Frenchman's life-sized 1781 marble statue of Voltaire is in the Comedie Francaise in Paris |
| 17 | The Thinker | 4 | Originally, this 1880 Rodin piece was meant to represent Dante, known to sit on a rock in Florence |
| 18 | relief | 4 | In this type of sculpture, an image is slightly raised above a flat surface |
| 19 | Florence | 4 | Bartolomeo Ammanati's large marble statue of Neptune adorns a fountain in this city's Piazza della Signoria |
| 20 | a discus | 4 | The best-known Myronic work is a statue of a man performing this Olympic event, completing the backswing |
| 21 | The Little Mermaid | 3 | In Danish she's known as "Den Lille Havfrue" |
| 22 | Medusa | 3 | Benevenuto Cellini was commissioned by Cosmo de Medici to create the statue of Perseus holding this Gorgon's head |
| 23 | Daphne | 3 | In 1622 Cardinal Borghese commissioned Bernini to sculpt "Apollo and" this river nymph for his gallery |
| 24 | Alberto Giacometti | 3 | This 20th-century sculptor is known for his almost painfully thin figures, like the one seen here |
| 25 | Nike | 3 | This sculpture from Samothrace is on a pedestal like a ship's prow, & her cloak is "held" against her by the "wind" |
| 26 | Constantin Brancusi | 3 | His "Bird in Space" was the subject of a court case after U.S. customs officials deemed it an industrial part & not a sculpture |
| 27 | Chief Crazy Horse | 3 | Since 1948 over 8 million tons of granite have been removed in sculpting this man & he's not finished |
| 28 | wax | 2 | A method of casting for bronze sculptures, cire-perdue means "lost" this in English |
| 29 | Voltaire | 2 | Houdon sculpted this French writer & thinker with & without his wig |
| 30 | Trajan | 2 | This emperor's "column" is a marble relief recording the Roman victory of Dacia |
| 31 | the Tuileries | 2 | Charles-Antoine Coysevox' equestrian statues of Mercury & Fame sit at the entrance to these gardens near the Louvre |
| 32 | The Minuteman | 2 | This Daniel Chester French statue commemorates the Battle of Concord in 1775 |
| 33 | the Mayo Clinic | 2 | In 1953 sculptor William Zorach created the relief "Man and Work" for this Rochester, Minnesota clinic |
| 34 | the Louvre | 2 | Michelangelo gave 2 sculptures, now in this Paris museum, to a family who cared for him during an illness |
| 35 | The Kiss | 2 | This Rodin sculpture could be called "The Osculation" |
| 36 | Peter Pan | 2 | Sir George Frampton did the statue of this J.M. Barrie character that's in Kensington Gardens |
| 37 | Perseus | 2 | A Cellini masterpiece shows this Greek hero holding the head of Medusa |
| 38 | Oklahoma | 2 | "Cowboy on a Wild Pony" by Constance Warren Whitney stands in front of this Sooner State's capitol building |
| 39 | Nelson | 2 | A statue of this admiral in Barbados predates the one in London's Trafalgar Square |
| 40 | Nefertiti | 2 | The Berlin museum is home to the famous bust of this Egyptian queen |
| 41 | Mobiles | 2 | Alexander Calder called these creations "four-dimensional drawings" |
| 42 | Japan | 2 | This country's 12th century sculptor Unkei is known for his wooden statues carved for Buddhist temples |
| 43 | Greece | 2 | Praxiteles was among the first to humanize this country's gods & goddesses in sculpture |
| 44 | Gauguin | 2 | Except for 1893-95, he spent the last 12 years of his life in French Polynesia |
| 45 | gargoyles | 2 | These decorative waterspouts of the Middle Ages were designed to prevent rainwater from running down masonry walls |
| 46 | Daniel Chester French | 2 | In addition to his "Minute Man" statue, he sculpted equestrian statues of Grant & Washington |
| 47 | Claes Oldenburg | 2 | Known for soft sculptures, this Swedish-born American artist once sold plaster replicas of fast foods |
| 48 | Bartholdi | 2 | He was the sculptor of the Lion of Belfort & a little piece called the Statue of Liberty |
| 49 | the U.S. Capitol | 2 | A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building |
| 50 | the Nile | 2 | ( Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a sculpture on the monitor.) Leaning against another famous figure, the sculpture here is a personification of this riv... |
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