40 Auguste Rodin Trivia Questions with Answers
40 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which painter exhibited with Auguste Rodin in a joint Paris exhibition in 1889?
Answer
Claude Monet
Which Auguste Rodin sculpture was first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1875?
Answer
The Man with the Broken Nose
Which French institution received Auguste Rodin’s works and collections after his bequest?
Answer
The French state
Which Paris landmark hosted Auguste Rodin’s personal exhibition pavilion in 1900?
Answer
Place de l’Alma
What was the original title of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Kiss?
Answer
Francesca da Rimini
Which Auguste Rodin sculpture depicts three identical male figures?
Answer
The Three Shades
Which sculpture did Auguste Rodin create as a tribute to the French painter Claude Lorrain?
Answer
The Monument to Claude Lorrain
Which sculpture by Auguste Rodin portrays two right hands meeting?
Answer
The Cathedral
How old was Auguste Rodin when he died?
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77
In which Paris building is the Musée Rodin located?
Answer
Hôtel Biron
Who modeled for Auguste Rodin’s 1877 sculpture The Age of Bronze?
Answer
Auguste Neyt
How tall is Auguste Rodin’s original plaster version of The Thinker?
Answer
71.5 centimetres
Which Auguste Rodin sculpture was inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy?
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The Gates of Hell
Which London museum owns Auguste Rodin’s marble sculpture The Kiss?
Answer
Tate Britain
Which sculpture stood above Auguste Rodin’s grave at Meudon?
Answer
The Thinker
Which sculptor was Auguste Rodin’s longtime artistic associate and partner?
Answer
Camille Claudel
What was Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker originally called?
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The Poet
What was the title of Auguste Rodin’s first major sculpture, exhibited in 1877?
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The Age of Bronze
How many times was Auguste Rodin rejected by the École des Beaux-Arts?
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Three times
Which French art school did Auguste Rodin attend from 1854?
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Petite École
What was Auguste Rodin’s full birth name?
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François-Auguste-René Rodin
Which writer commissioned Auguste Rodin’s monument to Balzac?
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Émile Zola
Where did Auguste Rodin die in 1917?
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Meudon
Which medieval lovers are represented in Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss?
Answer
Paolo and Francesca
Which sculpture by Auguste Rodin was first called The Vanquished?
Answer
The Age of Bronze
In what city was Auguste Rodin born in 1840?
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Paris