Rodin

     This piece was created by Auguste Rodin during 1908, just 9 years before his death in 1917. The sculpture was entirely carved out of stone and its dimensions are 64x29.5x31.8 cm. In this sculpture you can clearly see two hands, both right, beginning to embrace each other. At first this piece was named The Ark of the Covenant, but was renamed The Cathedral in 1914. It has been rumored that Rodin had a fondness of hands, therefore he isolated them from a body into their own sculpture. On the side view you can see that Rodin left space in between the hands, as "the role of air had always been extremely important for him."