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TUESDAY QUIZ - HIDDEN FIGURES
Here's a chestnut - Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker" is of which historic Italian poet? Conceived originally as a miniature figure atop The Gates of Hell, the seated figure is shown contemplating his own epic journey through the nine concentric circles of the Inferno.
Atop Mount Corcovado, which monumental concrete statue was co-sculpted by Paul Landowski - who incidentally won an Olympic gold medal for sculpture in 1928 (yes, sculpture was a sport in 1928 at the Olympics)? The worlds shortest BASE jump is off this structure.
The sculpture pictured is a nearly 7 foot tall marble sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite, now housed in the Louvre. As per its name, it was found on which delicious and chocolatey Greek island?
Adopting her quickly spreadable and vibrant Native American name to honour her Ojibwe heritage, which pioneering nineteenth-century neoclassical sculptor's masterwork "The Death of Cleopatra" stunned critics at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, making her the first African American sculptor to achieve international fame.
Triggering a furious art-world feud after purchasing the exclusive artistic rights to the ultra-black pigment Vantablack, which British-Indian sculptor created Chicago's famous mirror-polished Cloud Gate (known by tourists as The Bean)?
Crafted out of bronze, stainless steel, and marble to depict a colossal, protective arachnid carrying a sac of thirty-two eggs, which famous sculpture was created by Louise Bourgeois and sits outside of the Bilbao Guggenheim? The title is the French word for "Mother" - which raises a lot of questions for me.
Looted extensively by British colonial forces during an infamous 1897 punitive expedition, a prized collection of thousands of ceremonial plaques belonged to which African kingdom - which is now the name of a country? The alliterative bronzes were actually found in neighbouring Nigeria.
Spanning millennia from a prehistoric Indus Valley (Mohenjo Daro) bronze statuette to Edgar Degas’s controversial wax figure wearing a real muslin tutu, which shared descriptive title unites these iconic feminine figures?
This statue used to be called "Mother Motherland". What is its new name, as of August 2023?
Translating literally from Italian as "baked earth" which massive subterranean army discovered by farmers in 1974 Shaanxi near Xi'an and dated to the Qin Dynasty? I'll be honest, I really only know it from The Mummy franchise plot, and Lara Croft.
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ANSWERS:
Here’s a thinker… - Auguste Rodin’s “The Thinker” is of which historic Italian poet? Conceived originally as a miniature figure atop The Gates of Hell, the seated figure is shown contemplating his own epic journey through the nine concentric circles of the Inferno.
DANTE AlighieriAtop Mount Corcovado, which monumental concrete statue was co-sculpted by Paul Landowski - who incidentally won an Olympic gold medal for sculpture in 1928 (yes, sculpture was a sport in 1928 at the Olympics)? The worlds shortest BASE jump is off this structure.
CHRIST THE REDEEMERThe sculpture pictured is a nearly 7 foot tall marble sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite, now housed in the Louvre. As per its name, it was found on which delicious and chocolatey Greek island?
This is the Venus de Milo - so I’m looking for MILOAdopting her quickly spreadable and vibrant Native American name to honour her Ojibwe heritage, which pioneering nineteenth-century neoclassical sculptor’s masterwork “The Death of Cleopatra” stunned critics at the 1876 Centennial Exposition, making her the first African American sculptor to achieve international fame.
Her name is Edmonia LEWIS, but I’ll settle for her sobriquet: WILDFIRETriggering a furious art-world feud after purchasing the exclusive artistic rights to the ultra-black pigment Vantablack, which British-Indian sculptor created Chicago’s famous mirror-polished Cloud Gate (known by tourists as The Bean)?
Anish KAPOORCrafted out of bronze, stainless steel, and marble to depict a colossal, protective arachnid carrying a sac of thirty-two eggs, which famous sculpture was created by Louise Bourgeois and sits outside of the Bilbao Guggenheim? The title is the French word for “Mother” - which raises a lot of questions for me.
French for Mother? MAMANLooted extensively by British colonial forces during an infamous 1897 punitive expedition, a prized collection of thousands of ceremonial plaques belonged to which African kingdom - which is now the name of a country? The alliterative bronzes were actually found in neighbouring Nigeria.
These are the BENIN BRONZESSpanning millennia from a prehistoric Indus Valley (Mohenjo Daro) bronze statuette to Edgar Degas’s controversial wax figure wearing a real muslin tutu, which shared descriptive title unites these iconic feminine figures?
The Mohenjo Daro sculpture is called DANCING GIRL, and the Degas is called “Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen” (La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans). So any combination of Dance and Girl will give you the point!This statue used to be called “Mother Motherland”. What is its new name, as of August 2023?
It was renamed, as it stares over the landscape of Kyiv, to MOTHER UKRAINE.Translating literally from Italian as “baked earth” which massive subterranean army discovered by farmers in 1974 Shaanxi near Xi’an and dated to the Qin Dynasty? I’ll be honest, I really only know it from The Mummy franchise plot, and Lara Croft.
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