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  1. Which French sculptor is known for The Thinker and The Kiss?
  2. Reclining and seated figures and family groupings of children and parents were recurring themes in which British sculptor's modernist works?
  3. Cloud Gate is a public sculpture in Chicago by which British artist?
  4. Which English sculptor often used her garden in St Ives, Cornwall, to display her large-scale bronzes?






  5. Which artist created the masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture known as David?
  6. Which American sculptor is known for his stainless steel balloon animals produced with mirror-finish surfaces?
  7. Consisting of 100 cast iron figures facing towards the sea on Crosby Beach, Merseyside, who created the piece of modern sculpture entitled Another Place?
  8. Which sculptor submitted for a 1917 exhibition a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt"?
  9. Which French sculptor created Christ the Redeemer, an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
  10. American sculptor John Borglum is best known for which work?
  11. Displayed on a rock by the Copenhagen waterside, whose most famous work is The Little Mermaid?
  12. Which French sculptor is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty?
  13. Whose best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column?
  14. Which Greek sculptor's Statue of Zeus was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
  15. Which prolific British sculptor's works include the statue of Horatio Nelson on top of Nelson's Column?


Answers



  1. Auguste Rodin
  2. Henry Moore
  3. Anish Kapoor
  4. Barbara Hepworth
  5. Michelangelo (created between 1501 and 1504)
  6. Jeffrey Koons
  7. Antony Gormley
  8. Marcel Duchamp
  9. Paul Landowski
  10. Mount Rushmore
  11. Edvard Eriksen
  12. Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
  13. Edwin Landseer
  14. Phidias
  15. Edward Hodges Baily