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29.1 cm × 19.7 cm (11.5 in × 7.8 in) Location. Albertina, Vienna. 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 ...
Preparatory drawing. Hands of Maximilian.In Feast of the Rosary, Dürer shifted the hands closer together, so that his left hand overlapped his right palm. [2]The work was initially commissioned by Jakob Fugger, an intermediary between emperor Maximilian I and Pope Julius II, during the painter's stay as the banker's guest in Augsburg, though it was produced whilst the painter was in Venice.
Grace. (photograph) 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. In 2002, an act of the Minnesota State Legislature established it as the ...
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Title page. Small Passion is a series of 36 woodcuts and a frontispiece by Albrecht Dürer. [1] One of the best surviving sets is now in the British Museum in London. [2] It was produced in 1511 as a new set of works on Biblical themes and the life and Passion of Christ (its title distinguishes it from his earlier Great Passion) in 1511, the same year as he republished earlier works such as ...
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 ...
Laying on of hands Finnish Lutheran ordination in Oulu. In Christianity, the laying on of hands (Greek: cheirotonia – χειροτονία, literally, "laying-on of hands") is both a symbolic and formal method of invoking the Holy Spirit primarily during baptisms and confirmations, healing services, blessings, and ordination of priests, ministers, elders, deacons, and other church officers ...
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.