My favourite of Rodin’s works were the hand fragments. There were so many, some broken off and discarded from larger works like the Gates of Hell, others as studies for poses and casts. Hands are my favourite of all the body’s shapes, with their endless, endless holding
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Detail of Portrait of Nicolas Kratzer
Hans Holbein the younger — 1528
Tempera on Oak
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If you’re not amazed by the stars on a clear night then we won’t work.
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Wilhelm Steuerwaldt - Ruin of a crypt in winter (1842)
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'Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon' by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1832
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