Hand of God
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/33745
- Note
- "The Hand of God, or Manus Dei in Latin, also known as Dextera domini/dei (the "right hand of God"), is a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, when depiction of Yahweh or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable. The hand, sometimes including a portion of an arm, or ending about the wrist, is used to indicate the intervention in or approval of affairs on Earth by God, and sometimes as a subject in itself. It is an artistic metaphor that is generally not intended to indicate that a hand was physically present or seen at any subject depicted. The Hand is seen appearing from above in a fairly restricted number of narrative contexts, often in a blessing gesture (in Christian examples), but sometimes performing an action. In later Christian works it tends to be replaced by a fully realized figure of God the Father, whose depiction had become acceptable in Western Christianity, although not in Eastern Orthodox or Jewish art. Though the hand of God has traditionally been understood as a symbol for God's intervention or approval of human affairs, it is also possible that the hand of God reflects the anthropomorphic conceptions of the deity that may have persisted in late antiquity." - (en.wikipedia.org 04.12.2023)
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Vortragekreuz mit Aufsteckknauf
Der Brauch während der...
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Image: Südsauerlandmuseum Attendorn - CC BY-NC-SA -
Schützenscheibe: Gotteshand mit Zirkel
Runde Schützenscheibe. Aus...
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Image: Stadtmuseum Wangen - CC BY-NC-SA -
Denar aus der Regierungszeit Bischof Reinhards I.
Der Denar entstand vermutlich...
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Image: Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - CC BY-NC-SA -
Denar aus der Regierungszeit Bischof Reinhards I.
Der Denar entstand vermutlich...
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Image: Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - CC BY-NC-SA -
Brakteat aus der ersten Regierungszeit Bischof Ulrichs I.
Der Brakteat stammt aus der...
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Image: Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - CC BY-NC-SA
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