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Sculptors
YGK These Sculptors
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Florentine "Renaissance man" who sculpted David and the Pietà out of Carraran marble | Michelangelo |
| The Michelangelo sculpture for the tomb of Pope Julius II that features a prophet with horns | Moses |
| The French sculptor of The Burghers of Calais who had a tumultuous relationship with Camille Claudel | Auguste Rodin |
| The massive pair of doors by Rodin that served as the original source for The Thinker | The Gates of Hell |
| The Roman Baroque sculptor of The Ecstasy of St. Theresa and a "moving" David | Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
| The two massive Roman fountains designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini | Triton and the Fountain of the Four Rivers |
| The Florentine who sculpted the "pumpkin-head" Zuccone and the first post-Roman equestrian statue, Gattamelata | Donatello |
| The low-relief form mastered by Donatello | Schiacciato |
| The sculptor who defeated Brunelleschi in a 1401 competition to design the Florence Baptistery doors | Lorenzo Ghiberti |
| The name Michelangelo gave to Ghiberti's east doors of the Florence Baptistery | Gates of Paradise |
| The American sculptor of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota | Gutzon Borglum |
| The Classical Athenian sculptor of the gold-and-ivory Statue of Zeus at Olympia | Phidias |
| The Modernist Romanian sculptor of The Kiss and Bird in Space | Constantin Brâncuși |
| The sculptor of the seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial and The Minute Man | Daniel Chester French |
| The French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty and The Lion of Belfort | Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi |