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The drawing shows a close up of two male hands clasped together praying. Also, the partly rolled up sleeves are seen. Also, the partly rolled up sleeves are seen. The drawing used to be considered a sketch (study) for hands of an apostle , whose full picture was planned to occupy the central panel of the triptych installed in Frankfurt entitled ...
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Location. Städel, Frankfurt, and Staatliche Kunsthalle, Kalrsruhe. The Heller Altarpiece was an oil on panel triptych by German Renaissance artists Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald, executed between 1507 and 1509. The artwork was named after Jakob Heller, who ordered it. Dürer painted the interior, Grünewald the exterior.
Albrecht Dürer (/ ˈdjʊərər /; [1] German: [ˈʔalbʁɛçt ˈdyːʁɐ]; [2][3][1] 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), [4] sometimes spelled in English as Durer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in his twenties due to his high ...
The Study for the Virgin's Right Arm is a drawing by the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci that is kept at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. It is drawn in charcoal or black stone, grey chalk, ink, and white gouache highlights on red-tinted paper. Probably created between 1507 and 1510, the drawing is a preparatory study for the draped ...
Drawing Hands is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1948. It depicts a sheet of paper, out of which two hands rise, in the paradoxical act of drawing one another into existence. This is one of the most obvious examples of Escher's common use of paradox. It is referenced in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by ...
Standing facing the East is the most frequent prayer position. The person praying usually holds his or her hands outwards in the 'orans' position, which is a common Christian position of prayer, frequently portrayed in ancient Christian art, including in Coptic iconography. At other times, hands may be kept down to the sides or held together as ...
Two sketches of the same name for the painting A Sorcerer Comes to a Peasant Wedding, dated 1874, are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery. One of them (oil on canvas, 43.7×67.5 cm, inv. no. 9370) was in the collection of I. E. Tsvetkov from the early 1890s and was acquired by the Tsvetkov Gallery in 1927 through the State Museum Fund.