Saints’ day. Josephine, also Josefina, Pepa, Josèphe, Giuseppa, José, Joseph, Giuseppe, Pepe and Joe.

By Rubens – Study for the figure of Saint Joseph holding a staff with his right hand

Saints’ day. Augustine, the philosopher

Cherished friends, I’m not a believer of any religion, but a mere admirer of the Art that with its pretext has been done along the history. The stories of saints are almost like tales full of fantasy and often colorful too.

Thanks again for your loyalty to the Univers of the Sketches.

By anonymous artist of 14 century – A depiction of the african philosopher Saint Augustine, son of Saint Mónica, when he is writing with his left hand

Hands, arms, legs and feet

By Zorn, Anders – Hand

By Barocci – Biceps of an arm

By Carracci – Study of legs

By Da Sesto, Cesare – Studies of feet

By Van Gogh – Study of hands for ‘The eaters of potatoes’

By Barocci – Leg, foot and studies of drapery

By Bloemaert, Abraham – Studies of arms and legs

By Van Ceulen, Cornelis J. – Study of a woman’s hands

By Michelangelo – Studies for putto of the Libyan Sibyl, hand of the Libyan Sibyl, six slaves and architectural detail for the tomb of Julius II

By Bordone, Paris (attributed) – A left foot

By Passerotti – Study of hands

By Niessen, John – Three feet from a plaster model

By Da Vinci – Studies of legs and skeletons

By Grünewald – Study of arms

By Raphael – Study for ‘Diogenes at the Athens School’

By Rubens – Anatomical studies of leg

By Longhi – Unknown title

By Petrov-Vodkin, Kuzma S.- Hand

By Raphael – Study of the leg of an standing man and the drapery of a kneeling figure

By Dix, Otto – Study of hands of different ages

By Anonymous – Left foot of a figure lying on her back

By Barocci – Praying hands and a hand holding a wand

By Michelangelo – Anatomical study of legs

By Watteau – Hands and feet

By Kollwitz, Käthe – Studies of hands

By Anonymous – Left leg of a naked man

By Dürer – Hands and sleeve

By Barocci – Studies of arm and hand holding a staff

By Courbet, Gustave – Study of a hand and thistle plants

By Da Vinci – Studies of the arm showing the movements made by biceps

By Holbein the Younger – Study of hands

By Anonymous – Six feet

By David, Gerard – Studies of hands

By Bassano Jacopo – Study of praying hands

By Léger – The hands

By Barocci – Studies of the back of a left leg

By Buffet – Sketch of a hand for ‘The Songs of Maldoror’

By Lichtenstein – Measurement of a foot

By Le Corbusier – The open hand

By myself – Study from a foot modeled in plaster

Hands & hands

By Picasso – Warrior hand (study for Guernica)

By Michelangelo – First sketch for Sistine Chapel

By Van Gogh – Six studies of hands seeding

By Palma The Young – Hand with compass

By Cézanne – Sketch with anatomic studies

By Da Vinci – Hands

By Dürer – Praying hands