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Auguste Rodin 18x 22.2% stumper $756 avg J:3 DJ:15

DJ $200 2000 His "Gates of Hell" was the source for his famous 1886 work "The Kiss"

DJ $800 1997 In 1880 he began work on "The Gates of Hell" but never completed the project

DJ $1,600 2018 His sculpture "The Burghers of Calais" honors a sacrifice by the city's leaders in 1347

Michelangelo 14x 7.7% stumper $454 avg J:2 DJ:11 FJ:1

J $100 1993 The Vatican's principal attraction at the 1964 World's Fair was this sculptor's "St. Peter's Pieta"

J $600 2010 Sculpted for Julius II's tomb, his "Dying Slave" & "Rebellious Slave" figures are now in the Louvre

DJ $1,200 2006 At age 75 he began to sculpt his Florentine Pieta, in which he portrayed himself in the guise of Nicodemus

Pablo Picasso 14x 21.4% stumper $421 avg J:3 DJ:11

J $200 2002 In 1928 this cubist & Julio Gonzalez pioneered in welded sculpture: 1950's "She-Goat" is a famous example

DJ $600 1997 In 1881 this Cubist painter & sculptor was born in Malaga, Spain, the son of a professor of art

DJ $1,000 1984 Though it represents a woman, his 5-story Chicago structure has been called a baboon

Frederic Remington 14x 14.3% stumper $1,014 avg J:2 DJ:12

J $200 1993 This cowboy sculptor was an illustrator & correspondent during the Spanish-American War

DJ $600 1997 A museum devoted to this Western sculptor in Ogdensburg, N.Y. has a collection of his art & bronze statues

DJ $1,200 2013 In 1901 his sculpture "Bronco Buster" was exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo

Henry Moore 13x 69.2% stumper $1,338 avg J:1 DJ:12

DJ $800 1989 This British modern sculptor used holes in his works to emphasize their 3-dimensional quality

J $1,000 2009 This English sculptor made one of his reclining figures for the 1951 Festival of Britain

DJ $1,000 2000 This "holely" British sculptor had 2 large works named "Family Group", one a bronze, the other done in stone

the Venus de Milo 10x $670 avg J:1 DJ:9

J $100 1999 This statue discovered in the Cyclades Islands in 1820 may have held her garment in her now lost right hand

DJ $600 1984 "Disarming" statue unearthed by peasant of Greek island of Melos in 1820

DJ $1,200 2015 Found on an Aegean island in 1820, at 6'8" she'd make a great basketball player if she had arms

David 8x $714 avg J:1 DJ:6 FJ:1

DJ $200 1986 Donatello & Michelangelo both produced sculptures of this youthful biblical hero

DJ $800 2012 Between 1501 & 1504 Michelangelo worked on the marble sculpture of this man; it was placed by the Palazzo Vecchio

DJ $2,000 DD 1992 It has been suggested that Donatello's bronze statue of this biblical hero is actually of Mercury

Gutzon Borglum 8x 50.0% stumper $1,312 avg DJ:8

DJ $800 2016 To create his Stone Mountain sculpture, he had to devise a magic lantern to project a sketch onto the mountain

DJ $1,600 2021 In 1904 this Danish-American sculptor who later thought much bigger in South Dakota gave us "Mares of Diomedes"

DJ $2,500 DD 2012 He carved a bust of Lincoln for the U.S. Capitol rotunda; his much bigger one is in South Dakota

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Terra Cotta 7x 14.3% stumper $686 avg J:1 DJ:6

DJ $400 2012 Luca Della Robbia is said to be the first sculptor to apply glazes to this semi-fired ceramic clay with an Italian name

DJ $600 1996 18th C. artist Clodion sculpted nymphs & satyrs from this fired clay whose name is Italian for "baked earth"

DJ $1,200 2008 As marble was expensive, Luca della Robbia made his "Madonna and Child" with this glazed material

bronze 7x 14.3% stumper $671 avg J:3 DJ:4

DJ $200 1989 Of all metals, this alloy is the one most used for casting sculpture

DJ $800 2021 Renaissance Florentines said, this alloy isn't just good for artillery--hey Ghiberti, sculpt some doors from it

DJ $1,200 2017 Though the metal came from Europe, some African sculpture has the alliterative term "Benin" this material

Alexander Calder 7x 14.3% stumper $829 avg J:2 DJ:5

J $600 2002 His suspended abstract sculptures were given the name "mobiles" by Marcel Duchamp

DJ $1,200 2016 One of this American's mobile sculptures that was vandalized in 1929 went back on display at the Tate in 2015

DJ $600 2000 This artist's "Works in Progress" was a 'ballet" with mobiles, stabiles & electronic music

Donatello 5x 40.0% stumper $800 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $300 1993 This sculptor known for his bronze "David" was born Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi

J $500 1996 This genius of the early Renaissance was born Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi circa 1386

DJ $1,200 2016 Before Michelangelo, this Italian created two Davids; the first, seen here, was in marble, these condin bronze

Christo 5x 20.0% stumper $980 avg J:1 DJ:4

J $500 1993 This artist gets all wrapped up in his work; he draped the Pont-Neuf with 440,000 square feet of fabric

DJ $1,200 2014 In 1991 this sculptor and his wife installed 1,340 giant blue umbrellas over the Sato River Valley in Japan

DJ $800 2007 In 1983 this Bulgarian-born American encircled 11 Florida islands with bright pink polypropylene fabric

Jean-Antoine Houdon 5x 100.0% stumper $1,200 avg DJ:5

DJ $1,000 1996 This Frenchman's life-sized 1781 marble statue of Voltaire is in the Comedie Francaise in Paris

DJ $2,000 2004 A 1788 marble statue of George Washington sculpted by this Frenchman stands in Virginia's State Capitol building

DJ $1,000 1997 In 1778 this Frenchman made a bust of Benjamin Franklin & a death mask of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Degas 5x $600 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2010 When his "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" was first exhibited in 1881, it had fabric ballet shoes, a tutu & a wig

DJ $800 1991 In the 1880s this French artist turned from painting ballerinas to casting them in bronze

DJ $1,000 DD 1990 He put a real tutu on his famous statue of a 14-year-old ballet dancer

relief 4x $625 avg J:1 DJ:3

J $300 1986 Sculpture in which figures project from background, it's never spelled R-O-L-A-I-D-S

DJ $800 2020 (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Evolving from cave art, examples of this type of sculpture includes sunken, low or bas, and high or alto

DJ $1,000 1998 In this type of sculpture, an image is slightly raised above a flat surface

Florence 4x 50.0% stumper $850 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 2008 Bartolomeo Ammanati's large marble statue of Neptune adorns a fountain in this city's Piazza della Signoria

DJ $1,000 1995 Bartolommeo Ammannati designed this city's Fountain of Neptune & the courtyard of the Pitti Palace

J $600 2009 Bartolommeo Ammannati designed this city's Fountain of Neptune & the courtyard of the Pitti Palace

a discus 4x $775 avg DJ:4

DJ $100 DD 2008 The original of Myron's statue of a nude athlete hurling one of these no longer exists, only copies

DJ $600 1991 Students today study the form of Myron's statue of an ancient Greek athlete throwing one of these

DJ $1,600 2012 The best-known Myronic work is a statue of a man performing this Olympic event, completing the backswing

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Medusa 3 Daphne 3 Alberto Giacometti 3 Nike 3 Constantin Brancusi 3 Chief Crazy Horse 3 wax 2 Voltaire 2 Trajan 2 the Tuileries 2 The Thinker 2 the Nile 2 The Minuteman 2 the Mayo Clinic 2 The Little Mermaid 2 The Kiss 2 Peter Pan 2 Perseus 2 Oklahoma 2 Nefertiti 2 Mobiles 2 Japan 2 Greece 2 Gauguin 2 gargoyles 2 Claes Oldenburg 2 Bartholdi 2 the U.S. Capitol 2 the Buddha 2 Stone Mountain 2 Charles Marion Russell 2 a bust 2

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