Memorize these and you could recognize 47.5% of all Sculpture clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auguste Rodin | 18 | "The Vanquished" was the original title of this Frenchman's famous sculpture "The Age of Bronze" |
| 2 | Michelangelo | 14 | His unfinished Florentine Pieta was originally intended for his own tomb |
| 3 | Pablo Picasso | 14 | Though it represents a woman, his 5-story Chicago structure has been called a baboon |
| 4 | Frederic Remington | 14 | His piece "Bronco Buster" is considered the most famous of American Western art bronzes |
| 5 | Henry Moore | 13 | This British modern sculptor used holes in his works to emphasize their 3-dimensional quality |
| 6 | the Venus de Milo | 10 | This Greek statue, now in the Louvre, may have held an apple in the hand of its missing left arm |
| 7 | David | 8 | Donatello & Michelangelo both produced sculptures of this youthful biblical hero |
| 8 | Gutzon Borglum | 8 | He carved a bust of Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol rotunda; his much bigger one is in South Dakota |
| 9 | Terra Cotta | 7 | Clay medium that means "cooked earth" in Italian |
| 10 | bronze | 7 | The "Cire Perdue", or lost wax procedure, is used to cast sculptures made of this copper-tin alloy |
| 11 | Alexander Calder | 7 | This quintessential mobile sculptor was the son & grandson of sculptors |
| 12 | Donatello | 5 | This sculptor known for his bronze "David" was born Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi |
| 13 | Christo | 5 | This artist gets all wrapped up in his work; he draped the Pont-Neuf with 440,000 square feet of fabric |
| 14 | Jean-Antoine Houdon | 5 | This Frenchman's life-sized 1781 marble statue of Voltaire is in the Comedie Francaise in Paris |
| 15 | Degas | 5 | This painter of ballerinas began sculpting them around 1880; "Little Dancer of Fourteen" was his most famous |
| 16 | relief | 4 | In this type of sculpture, an image is slightly raised above a flat surface |
| 17 | Florence | 4 | Bartolomeo Ammanati's large marble statue of Neptune adorns a fountain in this city's Piazza della Signoria |
| 18 | a discus | 4 | The best-known Myronic work is a statue of a man performing this Olympic event, completing the backswing |
| 19 | Medusa | 3 | In a colossal bronze by Cellini, Perseus is holding the head of this gorgon |
| 20 | Daphne | 3 | One of Bernini's greatest works is his "Apollo and" this nymph |
| 21 | Alberto Giacometti | 3 | Swiss sculptor with an Italian name who's famous for figures such as this: |
| 22 | Nike | 3 | This sculpture from Samothrace is on a pedestal like a ship's prow, & her cloak is "held" against her by the "wind" |
| 23 | Constantin Brancusi | 3 | Between 1919 & 1925, he made several versions of "Bird In Space", in marble & bronze |
| 24 | Chief Crazy Horse | 3 | Only 20 miles from Mount Rushmore, the 563-foot sculpture of this Indian is world's largest |
| 25 | wax | 2 | Many of the figures Degas modeled in clay or this substance were cast in bronze after his death |
| 26 | Voltaire | 2 | The 1781 life-size marble statue of this French writer is one of Jean Antoine Houdon's most famous works |
| 27 | Trajan | 2 | This Roman's campaign against the Dacians in the early 2nd century was commemorated in a relief on a famous column |
| 28 | the Tuileries | 2 | Coysevox' equestrian statue of Mercury graces the entrance of these gardens near the Louvre |
| 29 | The Thinker | 2 | In the TV comedy, Dobie Gillis was often seen next to this Rodin sculpture |
| 30 | the Nile | 2 | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Rome.) In the Fountain of the Four Rivers, the shrouded one represents this river, whose source was then unknown |
| 31 | The Minuteman | 2 | Dedicated in Concord, Mass. in 1875, it was Daniel Chester French's 1st commission |
| 32 | the Mayo Clinic | 2 | This Rochester, Minn. medical clinic commissioned William Zorach's 1953 "Man And Work" |
| 33 | The Little Mermaid | 2 | In Danish she's known as "Den Lille Havfrue" |
| 34 | The Kiss | 2 | Sculptures by Rodin & Brancusi of a couple embracing are both named this |
| 35 | Peter Pan | 2 | There's a statue of this character in Kensington Gardens, London, near the home of James Barrie |
| 36 | Perseus | 2 | Duke Cosimo I commissioned Cellini to produce the bronze of this man holding Medusa's head |
| 37 | Oklahoma | 2 | A 33-foot statue of Buffalo Bill is featured at the Nat'l Cowboy Hall of Fame in this state |
| 38 | Nefertiti | 2 | Cairo boasts an unfinished head of this queen, but her famous bust is in Berlin's Egyptian Museum |
| 39 | Mobiles | 2 | Alexander Rodchenko is credited with developing these sculptures by suspending wood structures |
| 40 | Japan | 2 | This country's renowned sculptor, Unkei, is known for his wooden statues carved for Buddhist temples |
| 41 | Greece | 2 | A large cache of beautiful terra-cotta figurines was found at Tanagra in this country in 1874 |
| 42 | Gauguin | 2 | He carved "Luxure", a wooden statue of a Caribbean woman, before painting Tahitian ones |
| 43 | gargoyles | 2 | During the Middle Ages, these decorative waterspouts became a familiar part of Gothic buildings |
| 44 | Claes Oldenburg | 2 | In 1969 a giant lipstick created by this Swedish-born pop sculptor was erected at Yale University |
| 45 | Bartholdi | 2 | He sculpted the Statue of Lafayette in NYC's Union Square as well as the Statue of Liberty |
| 46 | the U.S. Capitol | 2 | A classical statue called "Freedom" sits atop the dome of this Washington, D.C. building |
| 47 | the Buddha | 2 | The "Seated Sakyamuni" from around 100 A.D. shows this figure on a throne meditating in the lotus position |
| 48 | Stone Mountain | 2 | This, the largest sculpture in the United States, is not located in South Dakota |
| 49 | Charles Marion Russell | 2 | This cowboy sculptor, a contemporary of Remington, represents Montana in Statuary Hall |
| 50 | a bust | 2 | This 4-letter term means a figure composed of the head, neck, shoulders & part of the torso |