Planar Rendering of Complex Forms chapter 9
This is a copy of a beautifully simplified hand study by a seventeenth-century Italian artist. See how the artist aimed to render
the essential structure of the hand. All of the large planes of the hand and fingers are “chiseled out” on the paper, omitting all
detail. What remains is a very solid hand in a convincing gesture of holding a sphere-like object.
Copy after Bartolomeo Passarotti’s Studies of Hands and Nude Figures,by Dean Fisher