Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "Sculpture": each question, its four options, the correct answer highlighted and, where available, its source. A chance to brush up on your general knowledge and then test what you know.
▶ Play today's quizWhich Italian artist sculpted the famous marble statue of David in Florence?
Source: Michelangelo carved David from a single flawed marble block other sculptors had already rejected as unusable.
What material is traditionally chipped away to create a classical statue?
Source: Marble is carved by subtraction, while bronze and clay are instead built up or cast into shape.
Which famous bronze sculpture shows a seated man resting his chin on his hand?
Source: Rodin's Thinker was originally designed as a small figure brooding above the gates of Hell.
The ancient statue Venus de Milo is famously missing which body parts?
Source: Nobody knows what pose her lost arms held, fuelling two centuries of scholarly guesswork.
Which French sculptor created The Thinker and The Kiss?
Source: Rodin was once accused of cheating by casting a sculpture directly from a live model's body.
The colossal stone heads on Easter Island are known by what name?
Source: The moai aren't just heads; most have full torsos buried beneath centuries of accumulated soil.
What process pours molten metal into a mould to form a sculpture?
Source: The lost-wax casting method has produced bronze sculptures for over five thousand years.
Mount Rushmore in the United States features how many presidents' faces?
Source: The carving took fourteen years, yet not a single worker died during the dangerous blasting.
Which green-tinted copper statue stands in New York Harbor?
Source: Liberty was originally shiny brown; her copper skin slowly turned green from decades of weathering.
Which Spanish architect's flowing stone facades blur building and sculpture in Barcelona?
Source: Gaudi shaped balconies on Casa Batllo to resemble bones, earning it the nickname House of Bones.
Which sculptor pioneered the mobile, a suspended sculpture that moves with air currents?
Source: The word 'mobile' was coined for Calder's works by his friend, the artist Marcel Duchamp.
Which mirror-polished steel sculpture in Chicago is nicknamed 'The Bean'?
Source: Cloud Gate has no visible seams; its 168 stainless plates were polished until the welds vanished.
Which British sculptor is best known for large reclining figures with hollowed-out forms?
Source: Moore said he pierced holes in his figures because a hole can have as much shape as a solid mass.
The ancient Terracotta Army was buried to guard the tomb of which ruler?
Source: Each of the thousands of clay soldiers has a unique face, as if modelled on real individual men.
Which Romanian-born sculptor reduced forms to sleek essentials in works like Bird in Space?
Source: US customs once taxed Brancusi's abstract Bird as scrap metal, refusing to accept it was art.
Which sculptor is famous for extremely thin, elongated standing figures?
Source: Giacometti's spindly figures became so valuable that one sold for over 100 million dollars.
Which Baroque sculptor created the dramatic Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in Rome?
Source: Bernini lit the scene with a hidden window, making sunlight pour over the gilded bronze rays.
What was the original surface appearance of most ancient Greek marble statues?
Source: Traces of pigment prove Greek statues were vividly coloured; the pristine white look is just lost paint.
Which casting technique melts away an original model to leave a hollow mould?
Source: In lost-wax casting the wax model is destroyed forever, so each early bronze was effectively unique.
Which Renaissance sculptor's bronze David was the first free-standing nude since antiquity?
Source: Donatello's David predates Michelangelo's by decades and was cast in bronze rather than carved in marble.