THE HANDS
Perhaps the two most famous pictures of hands are “Praying Hands,” also known as “Study of the Hands of an Apostle,” a pen-ink drawing by Albrecht Duer, created in 1858, and Michaelangelo’s “Creation of Adam,” painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, completed during the years 1508 and 1512. I looked what you just read after looking at my own hands one day, as I sat quietly in a...