A descriptive cross-hatching technique creates tone and shape in Albrecht Durer’s illustration ‘Praying Hands’. White lines are used to create highlights and black lines to create shadow.

The Kupferstichkabinett at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie invites visitors to explore the intriguing world of sleep and dreams in art with the exhibition "Are You Dreaming? Closed Eyes in Art," open until ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. The hand is where the mind meets the world. We humans use our hands to build fires and sew quilts, to steer airplanes, to ...

It sounds absurd—not to mention Orwellian—but a handful of people have been arrested or charged in the country simply for praying silently ... bowed and his hands were clasped," according ...

The Taliban has enacted a new measure prohibiting Afghan women from praying aloud or reciting the Quran in the presence of other women. It marks another addition to a mounting pile of laws ...

The method enables precise control of prosthetic hands using signals from the brain alone. Researchers were able to show that the neural signals that control the different hand postures in the ...

Give yourself to Jesus through the Hands of Mary. Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you to pray and to help you hear him; to understand what he is asking of you; and for the grace to then do what he is ...

“My hands were shaking as I held it up to the light. The laid paper was absolutely right for the period. The quality of the ...

Narrator: Germs are like cars. They are always on the move. And our hands? They're like one big freeway, moving germs toll-free from location to location outside and inside your body. But when you ...

A British army veteran has now been convicted for silently praying outside an abortion clinic ... that despite his silent prayer, his clasped hands and bowed head were enough to show “disapprova ...

Their right arms are raised, reminiscent of the Nazi salute. Heads bowed, eyes closed, they are praying for a convicted felon, an adjudicated sexual abuser, a man who incited an insurrection to ...