Sculptors Lorenzo Ghiberti to Brunelleschi

Ghiberti

"Gates of Paradise" name given by Michelangelo

Calder

"stabiles" and "mobiles"

French

American Sculptor of The Minute Man

Phidias

Athena Parthenos,

Phidias

Athena Promachos a colossal bronze statue stood between Parthenon and the Propylaea (monumental gateway to the Acropolis)

Borglum

Augustus Lukeman completed his Stone Mountain work

Brunelleschi

Basilca of San Lorenzo

Brancusi

Bird in Space

Brancusi

Chimera Sculpture

Brunelleschi

Church of Santa Spirito

Calder

Circus Scene,

Brancusi

Endless Column is a 97 foot high work consisting of 17 and a half rhomboidal modules is a part of his WWI memorial at Targu Jiu

Calder

Fish Tail

Calder

Flamingo in front of Chicago's Federal Plaza

Bartholdi

French sculptor of the Statue of Liberty

Brunelleschi

Hospital of the Innocents

Brunelleschi

Hospital of the Innocents (Ospedale degli Innocenti)

Brancusi

John Quinn was his patron

Borglum

Korczak Ziolkowski his assistant began work on the Crazy Horse Memorial

Bartholdi

Lion of Belfort to commemorate Franco-Prussian War

Calder

Lobster Trap

Brancusi

Mademoiselle Pogany

Borglum

Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills of South Dakota

Brunelleschi

Ospedale degli Innocenti

Brunelleschi

Pazzi Chapel once attributed to him is not anymore

Brancusi

Princess X is a phallic sculpture depicting Marie Bonaparte

Brancusi

Prometheus

Brancusi

Romanian sculptor who was a major figure in Modernism

Brancusi

Sleeping Muse

Ghiberti

St. John the Baptist and St. Matthew for the Orsanmichele

French

Standing Lincoln for the Nebraska state capitol

Borglum

Stone Mountain

Brancusi

Temple of Meditation included the piece King of Kings

Brancusi

The Endless Column

Brancusi

The Newborn

Brancusi

The Table of Silence

Brancusi

Three Penguins

Brancusi

Torso of a Young Man

Calder

Two Acrobats

Brancusi

U. S. customs taxed his works as "industrial products" since they refused to recognize them as art

Borglum

artist of The Aviator

Ghiberti

beat Jacopo della Quercia and Filippo Brunelleschi in a competition

Brancusi

best known for The Kiss

French

best known for his seated statue in the Lincoln Memorial,

French

best known for the Lincoln Memorial seated statue

Ghiberti

best known work is the "Gates of Paradise"

Bartholdi

bronze statues of "The Young Vine-Grower" "Genie Funbre" and "Genius in the Grasp of Misery"

Ghiberti

cast a bronze statue of St. John the Baptist for the Orsanmichele

Brunelleschi

churches of Santa Maria degli Angeli and Santo Spirito

French

collaborated with Edward Clark Potter on a golden quadriga at the entrance of the Minnesota state capital called the The Progress of the State

French

collaborated with Edward Clark Potter to design a group of six gilded horses for a capital building in his series Progress of the State

French

collaborated with Henry Bacon on the sculpture of Marquis de Lafayette in Prospect Park

Brancusi

commemorated WWI heroes at Targu-Jiu

Brancusi

commissioned by the Maharajah of Indore to construct a temple that would his works

Brancusi

constructed by the Maharajah of Indore to construct a temple that would hold his works

Borglum

created a memorial to Sacco and Vanzetti, created a marble bust of Abraham Lincoln for the Capitol Rotunda

Phidias

created a statue of Zeus at his temple in Olympia

Brancusi

created an oak monument called "King of Kings" for his "Temple of Meditation"

Brancusi

created an oval-shaped head lying on its side with its eyes closed in Sleeping Muse

Ghiberti

created depictions of St. John the Baptist and St. Matthew for the Orsanmichele

Phidias

created the Elgin Marbles

Phidias

created the Elgin Marbles that adorned the Parthenon

Ghiberti

defeated Brunelleschi to win 1401 competition

Borglum

depicted a stampede directed by Hercules in his Mares of Diomedes

French

designed medals for the Pulitzer Prize

Phidias

designed the statue of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis

Calder

developer of mobiles

Brunelleschi

dome on top of the Florence Cathedral was built without the use of flying buttresses because it was supported by an octagonal base

Borglum

equestrian statue of General Philip Sheridan in Washington D. C.

Bartholdi

equestrian statue of Vercingetorix

Borglum

four presidents on Mount Rushmore are George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson,

French

golden "Statue of the Republic" overlooked Chicago's World Fair

French

he also sculpted the statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard,

Ghiberti

he called himself the most perfect sculptor in his Commentaries

Ghiberti

his Comentarii contain the first major autobiography of an artist and were a major source for Vasari

Borglum

his Mares of Diomedes is the first American sculpture bought by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Calder

his Mercury Fountain has liquid metal flowing through it and it protests Franco's seizure of the Almaden mines

Calder

his Mountains and Clouds hangs from the Ceiling of the Hart Senate Building

Brunelleschi

his biographer is Antonio Manetti

Phidias

his creation the Elgin Marbles now stand in the Duveen Gallery

Borglum

his son Lincoln Borglum finished Mount Rushmore

French

his statue of Minerva is called Alma Mater and is located in front of that main building in Columbia University

Phidias

his statue of Zeus in Olympia has the main subject seated in a throne holding a figure of Nike in his right hand and a scepter in his left hand

Ghiberti

his students include Paolo Uccello

Calder

his work Circus

Calder

his work Flamingo

Phidias

holds a small statue of Victory, and has a sphinx on her helmet and Medusa's head on her breastplate

French

included a hidden owl in the folds of the robe of his seated Minerva

Borglum

known for The Mares of the Diomedes

Borglum

monument to pilot James R. McConnell who died in the Lafayette Escadrille entitled "The Aviator"

Bartholdi

museum dedicated to him in Colmar

Bartholdi

namesake fountain in Washington D. C.

Phidias

one of his sculptures lay between the Propylaea and a building which housed another of his sculptures

French

one of his works The Minute Man is in Concord, Massachusetts,

Bartholdi

one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition

Phidias

one sculpture has the tale of Pandora's birth in relief on its pedestal

Ghiberti

one work depicts the sacrifice of Isaac

Brancusi

one work is a limestone disk surrounded by twelve chairs and a gate that features bisected circles-within-circles

French

one work is called Alma Mater,

Brancusi

ovoid Portrait of Nancy Cunard

Borglum

portrayed James R. McConnell a pilot killed in WWI as a man with wings in The Aviator

Calder

protested Franco's seizure of the Almaden mines by making a fountain that pumps mercury rather than water

Calder

pyramidal sculpture with six prongs that dig into the ground and peaks that end in disks his Man,

Phidias

rival of Hegias

Phidias

sculptor of Athena Promachos

Brunelleschi

solved a problem that had confounded Arnolfo di Cambio 120 years earlier

Brancusi

stack of twelve chairs and a stack of 17 rhomboidal modules as parts of an ensemble he created to commemorate WWI heroes

Bartholdi

statue of Marquis de Lafayette in New York City

Phidias

student of Hegeladas

Brunelleschi

subject of Antonio Manetti's The Fat Woodpecker

Phidias

supported by money from the Delian League run by his friend Pericles but he was later ruined by charges of corruption generally considered to be a part of a political campaign against Pericles

French

supposedly hid an owl among the folds of a statue of Minerva

Brancusi

temple for the Maharaja of Indore

Brancusi

the Kiss Gate

Calder

twin protruding arches in Flamingo

Ghiberti

won a contest to produce the eastern doors to the Florence baptistery

Ghiberti

won the competition for the doors of the Florence Baptistery