40 Sculpture Through History Trivia Questions with Answers
40 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the monumental seated Buddha carved into a cliff at Leshan in China?
Answer
Leshan Giant Buddha
Which sculptor designed the colossal heads of four U.S. presidents on Mount Rushmore?
Answer
Gutzon Borglum
Which monumental sculpture by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen is a giant typewriter eraser installed in Washington, D.C.?
Answer
Typewriter Eraser, Scale X
Which sculptor created The Veiled Christ, the marble statue completed in Naples in 1753?
Answer
Giuseppe Sanmartino
Which 1913 sculpture by Umberto Boccioni expresses movement through repeated, aerodynamic forms?
Answer
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Which 17th-century marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini shows Pluto abducting Proserpina?
Answer
The Rape of Proserpina
Which sculpture by Auguste Rodin depicts six citizens carrying the keys of the besieged French town of Calais?
Answer
The Burghers of Calais
Which ancient Roman sculpture group depicts the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons attacked by sea serpents?
Answer
Laocoön and His Sons
Which sculpture by Bernini shows Saint Teresa experiencing a mystical vision in the Cornaro Chapel?
Answer
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
Which sculptor created the 1886 Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor?
Answer
Frédéric Bartholdi
Which ancient Greek statue, found in 1863 on Samothrace, represents Nike, the goddess of victory?
Answer
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Which monumental statue in Rio de Janeiro depicts Jesus with outstretched arms above Mount Corcovado?
Answer
Christ the Redeemer
What is the colossal seated sculpture of Ramses II at the Egyptian Museum in Memphis commonly called?
Answer
Colossus of Ramses II
What is the name of the 1908 Ice Age figurine found at Willendorf in Austria?
Answer
Venus of Willendorf
Which ancient Egyptian sculpture depicts the lion-bodied, human-headed guardian near the pyramids of Giza?
Answer
Great Sphinx of Giza
Who sculpted the marble statue David, completed in Florence in 1504?
Answer
Michelangelo