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| Alvise Vivarini Studies of Hands ca. 1480 drawing Fondation Custodia, Paris |
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| Raffaellino del Garbo Studies of Hands ca. 1500-1510 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hans Holbein the Elder Hand of Crossbowman and Hand of St Sebastian 1514-15 drawing (study for altarpiece painting) Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen |
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| Baccio Bandinelli Study of Hands ca. 1530 drawing Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Bartolomeo Passarotti Four Studies of Hands ca. 1570-75 drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| Hans Hoffmann Study of Hands 1579 drawing Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| attributed to Giovanni Battista Naldini Study of Hand before 1591 drawing Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Anthony van Dyck Studies of Forearm and Hand ca. 1632 drawing National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Anonymous Spanish Artist Study of Hand 18th century drawing Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Anonymous European Artist Model with Upraised Arm 18th century drawing Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Luigi Sabatelli Model with Upraised Arm ca. 1790-1800 drawing Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan |
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| Guillaume Lethière Study of Arm and Hand ca. 1812 drawing National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Anonymous Photographer Study of Hand ca. 1865 albumen print National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Jack Cato Study of Hands holding Book 1938 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
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| Lisette Model Lower East Side, Arm to Fore 1942 gelatin silver print Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna |
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| John Brack Study of Hands for Portrait of Fred Williams 1958-59 drawing National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
The Magi
Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye,
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky
With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones,
And all their helms of silver hovering side by side,
And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more,
Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied,
The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
– W.B. Yeats (1914)