# The Hand of God [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RODIN, Auguste]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Marble, 74 x 60 x 64 cm ## Commentary The Hand of God 1896-1902 \(model\), carved c. 1907 Marble, 74 x 60 x 64 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Here, Rodin makes extraordinary use, both technical and allegorical, of the medium of marble. The material plays a key role in the sculpture, especially the underworked and roughly chiseled portions. A variation on the theme of birth and beginnings, the work presents Adam and Eve entwined in a fetal position and emerging from an amorphous mound of marble cradled in God's hand. During a seminal trip to Italy in 1876, Rodin had encountered works by Michelangelo in which the figures similarly materialize out of rough stone, symbolizing the process of artistic creation itself. ## Related artworks - [Adam \(detail\)]() - [Adam]() - [Adam]() - [Adam]() - [Balzac \(detail\)]() - [Balzac]() - [Balzac]() - [Bellona]() - [Bust of Étienne Clémentel]() - [Bust of Victor Hugo with Modeled Base]() - [Cathedral]() - [Danaid \(The Source\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()