Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s ...

What source image might they have been modeled after? Our vote goes to this drawing of praying hands by the German artist Albrecht Durer, dating from about 1500: Praying hands by the German ...

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A surgical procedure on the writer’s fingers is for instance the prompt for his interrogation of Durer’s fascination with hands and presumed medical issues in that regard. Whether David Bowie ...