Who Made That?

Question: The sculpture called The Thinker (1880s)

Answer: Auguste Rodin sculpted The Thinker originally as part of his larger Gates of Hell project in the 1880s. He presented it as a distinct sculpture in 1888.

Question: The sculpture The Little Fourteen-year-old Dancer (1879–80)

Answer: Edgar Degas created this sculpture, which was unusual in its time for its mixed-media presentation (a real tutu and hair ribbon).

Question: The fresco paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–12)

Answer: Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Question: The painting The Birth of Venus (1482–85)

Answer: Sandro Botticelli painted this famous work, the subject of which comes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Question: The painting Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)

Answer: Hieronymus Bosch painted this large triptych that shows the fall of man before temptation in the Garden of Eden.

Question: The painting A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86)

Answer: Georges Seurat painted A Sunday on La Grande Jatte using his trademark pointillist style.

Question: The sculpture of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (dedicated 1922)

Answer: Daniel Chester French designed the colossal Abe Lincoln. It is carved in marble.

Question: The house called Fallingwater (completed 1936)

Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright designed this cantilevered house over a waterfall in Pennsylvania.

Question: The painting Guernica (1937)

Answer: Pablo Picasso painted Guernica, which he named after the town bombed in 1937 by the Fascists.

Question: The cathedral La Sagrada Familia (1882–)

Answer: Antonio Gaudi was the architect for this famed cathedral, which he did not live to see finished. Indeed, the cathedral was never completed.