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This is another powerful example of Rodin’s ability to express a range human emotions through his sculpture of a hand. https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/m.jpgmThe Creation of Adam by Michelangelo: This is one of the most iconic and most widely recognized images of hands. It is located on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. A series of nine panels create the fresco illustrating scenes from the Book of Genesis. The Creation of Adam is the best known and although fourth in the series of nine, it was among the last to be created circa 1511. The hand of God is on the right. The hand of Adam is on the left. https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/download.jpgdownloadThe hand of Jean de Fiennes from Rodin’s Burghers of Calais: This sculpture commemorates Les Bourgeois de Calais, heroes of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France and symbols of French patriotism. It is a collection of six statues, each depicting one of the men who volunteered to sacrifice themselves to save their city. Jean de Fiennes was the youngest of the six burghers and the 5th to volunteer. His statue depicts him with arms outstretched and mouth open. According to the 14th century Chronicles of Jean Froissart, King Edward the III of England had laid siege to Calais, an important French port city on the English Channel. After 11 months, the people of the city were desperately short of food and water. In order to save the town, six of its leading citizens offered to surrender themselves to King Edward to be executed in exchange for the freedom of their city. Rodin chose to portray the Burghers as they leave the city, believing they are going to die. The statue was unique in that it was not the usual monument to Victory, rather, it was a tribute to heroic self-sacrifice. The Burghers represent the notions of self-sacrifice to the greater good and humane justice. Rodin depicts the Burghers as vulnerable and conflicted, yet heroic in the face of their imminent demise. Each of the six figures, through posture and facial expression, depicts distinct reaction to their sacrifice: despair, resignation, quiet defiance. Ultimately, King Edward’s pregnant wife, Queen Philippa, persuaded her husband to spare the Burghers believing their deaths would be a bad omen for their unborn child. I consider The Burghers of Calais to be Rodin’s most moving and powerful work. https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hand.jpghandStudy of a Hand by Auguste Rodin: Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was fascinated by the power of expression of hands. In 1900, the critic Gustave Kahn wrote, "Rodin is the sculptor of hands, raging, tensed, arched, damned hands". There is no doubt that Rodin attached more importance to this part of the body than any other. Fascinated by the expressive power of isolated hands, he studied them unceasingly, accumulating in his studio numerous studies in clay or plaster, in which the sensitivity of the modeling vies with the verisimilitude of the gesture. Through hands, Rodin expresses the full range of human emotions, from anxiety to suffering, from resignation to despair. https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/bshapeimage_2.jpgThe Burghers of Calais by Auguste RodinThis casting of the Burghers is in the Kuntsmuseum in Basel, Switzerland. By French law, only 12 castings exist. We have one in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/6.jpg6https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/rodin-auguste-pianist-s-hands.jpgLeft Hand of a PianistRodin produced a number of pieces focusing upon the pianist’s hand. As revealing as the face, on their own they can sometimes symbolize a form of human activity, such as this Hand of a Pianist which seems to run over an imaginary keyboard with nervous energy. https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hand-of-a-pianist.jpghand of a pianisthttps://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/hand-of-the-devil.jpgHand of the DevilHand of the Devil In juxtaposition to the Hand of God holding a naked couple, Rodin created the Hand of the Devil holding a naked woman. The title of this piece leaves one to conclude that Rodin, at times, perceived woman as a diabolical invention.https://northeasthand.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/the-secret.jpgthe secretStudy for the Secret - The Secret Starting with The Shades, an assemblage of three identical figures placed at the top of The Gates of Hell before 1886, fragmentation and multiplication guided Rodin in his search for new rhythms. He used this approach for hands, "faces without eyes and without voice, but which see and talk" (Focillon), of which the Musée Rodin in Paris, France has numerous studies. "Rodin is the sculptor of hands as Verlaine is their poet", said Gustave Kahn. The Cathedral of 1908 (see below) is an assemblage of two right hands shaping the void into a Gothic arch. The two hands of the marble version of the Secret (1909), also right hands, enclose a casket, illustrating the title of the work through a traditional iconographic reference. 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