The Thinker
Rodin first conceived it as part of a larger work. This topic is part of Sculpture within Arts & Culture. This page currently draws on 14 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
The Thinker trivia questions
Who created The Thinker?
Answer: Auguste Rodin
Bonus fact: Rodin first conceived it as part of a larger work.
The Thinker was originally designed for a monumental work called what?
Answer: The Gates of Hell
Bonus fact: Rodin's project drew inspiration from Dante.
The seated figure of The Thinker is often associated with which poet in Rodin's original conception?
Answer: Dante
Bonus fact: The figure may represent Dante contemplating the scenes below.
The theorem is named after which ancient Greek thinker?
Answer: Pythagoras
Bonus fact: The relationship was known earlier in some cultures, but bears Pythagoras's name.
Which Enlightenment thinker argued for separation of governmental powers?
Answer: Montesquieu
Bonus fact: His ideas influenced constitutional systems.
Which Enlightenment thinker strongly influenced the modern idea of separation of powers?
Answer: Montesquieu
Bonus fact: His writings influenced constitutional designers.
Which thinker coauthored The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels?
Answer: Karl Marx
Bonus fact: The pamphlet was published in 1848.
Where did Alcott live among Transcendentalist thinkers?
Answer: Concord, Massachusetts
Bonus fact: Her family knew Emerson and Thoreau.
Which fellow thinker co-edited the Encyclopédie with Diderot?
Answer: Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Bonus fact: D'Alembert handled much of the mathematical and scientific material.
Which earlier psychological thinker strongly influenced Surrealism?
Answer: Sigmund Freud
Bonus fact: Freud's ideas about dreams and the unconscious were central.
The Enlightenment emphasized reason and what?
Answer: Individual rights
Bonus fact: Thinkers promoted reason, science, and political reform.
Tolstoy was born into the aristocracy of which country?
Answer: Russia
Bonus fact: He later became a radical moral and religious thinker.