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  2. Praying Hands (Dürer) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Hand of God (art) - Wikipedia

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    The hand of God appears in the early 14th-century Haggadah, the Birds' Head Haggadah, produced in Germany. [39] Two hands of God appear underneath the text of the Dayenu song, dispensing the manna from heaven. The Birds' Head Haggadah is a particularly important visual source from the medieval period, as it is the earliest surviving example of ...

  4. File:Hands of God and Adam.jpg - Wikipedia

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  5. The Creation of Adam - Wikipedia

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    The first is a Scheme for the Decoration of the Vault of the Sistine Chapel: Studies of Arms and Hands. [28] The right side of the page was sketched in 1508 with black chalk, and is a study of Adam's limp hand, before it is ignited with the gift of life from God, in the Creation of Adam scene.

  6. God the Father in Western art - Wikipedia

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    The Hand of God symbol in the Ascension from the Drogo Sacramentary, c. 850. The Hand of God, an artistic metaphor, is found several times in the only ancient synagogue with a large surviving decorative scheme, the Dura Europos Synagogue of the mid-3rd century, and was probably adopted into Early Christian art from Jewish art.

  7. Acheiropoieta - Wikipedia

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    A painting of God painting Our Lady of Guadalupe, an unusual Marian image, 18th century. Acheiropoieta are Christian icons that are said to have come into existence miraculously, not created by a human. They are also called icons made without hands. Invariably these are images of Jesus or the Virgin Mary, usually the Virgin and Child.

  8. Right hand of God - Wikipedia

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    God Inviting Christ to Sit on the Throne at His Right Hand, painting by Pieter de Grebber (1645). The Holy Spirit is visible as a dove at the top of the image.. The right hand of God is a phrase used in the Bible and common speech as a metaphor for the omnipotence of God and as a motif in art.

  9. The Light of the World (painting) - Wikipedia

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    The Light of the World (Keble College version). The Light of the World (1851–1854) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will ...