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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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Dürer added a self-portrait in the background, next to a table with his signature and the date. The internal side panels were painted by assistants from Dürer's drawings. At left is he Martyrdom of St. James ; Jacob Heller appears below, kneeling inside a niche with his coat of arms.
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)
He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis (1502), The Sea Monster (1498), and Saint Eustace (c. 1501), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals. His landscapes of this period, such as Pond in the Woods and Willow Mill , are quite different from his earlier watercolours.
The Four Apostles by is a Renaissance style diptych painting created by Albrecht Dürer in 1526. [1] This work, which includes two oil-on-panel paintings, depicts four prominent figures of Christianity: Saints John, Peter, Mark, and Paul.
Namaste is a praying hands gesture usually coupled with a greeting and a head bow. Nod , tilting the head up and down that usually indicates assent in Western Europe, North America, and the Indian subcontinent, among other places, but a nod also means the opposite in other places, such as Bulgaria. [ 53 ]
Architectural archways are formed throughout the background, including some that are broken, and some that are only partly visible to the viewer's eye. This works to avoid defining structure in the composition in a permanent way, allowing nature to also organise the vastness of the pictorial space. [ 3 ]