Who sculpted the Statue of Liberty?

• A. Auguste Rodin
• B. Michelangelo
• C. Frederic Bartholdi
• D. Donatello

Answer: (C)

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi designed and sculpted the Statue of Liberty. He was the French artist responsible for the statue’s visible form—the draped robes, the tablet in her left hand, and the torch-bearing arm with the crown of seven spikes—while the internal frame was engineered by Gustave Eiffel. The other names are famous sculptors from different times and works, not this monument. This statue was a gift from France to the United States and was completed in the 1880s, officially dedicated in 1886, standing on Liberty Island as a symbol of freedom.