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Praying Hands (German: Betende Hände), also known as Study of the Hands of an Apostle (Studie zu den Händen eines Apostels), is a pen-and-ink drawing by the German printmaker, painter and theorist Albrecht Dürer. The work is today stored at the Albertina museum in Vienna, Austria.
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The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States.
Praying hands against quasi-stained-glass background. Date: 2006 (SVG) Source: Adapted vectorized version of tiny raster image Image:Praising-hands.png: Author: Original tiny raster by Bastique, vectorization work by Booyabazooka: Permission (Reusing this file)
To cross one's fingers is a hand gesture commonly used to wish for luck. Early Christians used the gesture to implore the protection of the Holy Cross. [ 1 ] The gesture is referred to by the common expressions "cross your fingers", "keep your fingers crossed", or just "fingers crossed".
The original black and white photo. Later versions may have color or a second light source added. Grace is a photograph by Eric Enstrom.It depicts an elderly man (named Charles Wilden) with hands folded, saying a prayer over a table with a simple meal.
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The effigies are always recumbent—as if dead, and by the 14th century with hands clasped in prayer. The most common material is carvings on marble, alabaster or wood, with some examples cast in bronze or brass. The faces and hands of the few surviving wooden effigies are made from wax or plaster.