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  2. Praying Hands (Dürer) - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. 30 Hand-Drawn Sketches That Vary From Absolutely Stunning To ...

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    Image credits: u/Coccy6 On the other hand, some view sketching as an art technique that prioritizes the expression of ideas rather than realism and detail. Even this art form can be split into ...

  4. File:Albrecht Dürer - Praying Hands, 1508 - Google Art ...

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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.

  5. Drawing - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1485) Accademia, Venice. Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instruments used to make a drawing are pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets or gamepads in VR drawing software.

  6. Sign of the cross - Wikipedia

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    The 1549 Book of Common Prayer reduced the use of the sign of the cross by clergy during liturgy to five occasions, although an added note ("As touching, kneeling, crossing, holding up of hands, and other gestures; they may be used or left as every man's devotion serveth, without blame") gave more leeway to the faithful to make the sign. [39]

  7. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Hand-rubbing, rubbing both hands palms together along the fingers' direction may mean that one is expecting or anticipating something or that one feels cold. U.S. servicemen surrendering with raised hands during the Battle of Corregidor. Hands up is a gesture expressing military surrender by lifting both hands. This may have originated with the ...

  8. Orans - Wikipedia

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    Orans, a loanword from Medieval Latin orans (Latin: [ˈoː.raːns]) translated as "one who is praying or pleading", also orant or orante, as well as lifting up holy hands, is a posture or bodily attitude of prayer, usually standing, with the elbows close to the sides of the body and with the hands outstretched sideways, palms up.

  9. Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur - Wikipedia

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    Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur was painted by Polish-Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb in 1878. It depicts Jews in the midst of the Yom Kippur service, on one of the holiest days of the Jewish calendar .