Michelangelo and Rodin: Finding the Living Spirit in Stone
A hand emerges from a rough white marble block, its elegant, polished fingers reaching toward the heavens. In its palm are tiny nude figures, male and female, locked in a passionate embrace. “Hand of God,” a late-19th-century sculpture by Auguste Rodin, references the biblical creation of Adam and Eve, but also Michelangelo, the Renaissance artist…
