The powerful hand of God who shaped two figures and gave new life to Adam and Eve as an embracing, sensual couple. It is also symbolic image of the artist who invents a world. 

The play of shadow and light and the subtle combination of perfectly smooth with non finito passages, plus the deliberately marks of the tools, make The Hand of God a particularly expressive work. 

Fascinated by the expressive qualities of the hands, Rodin studied them intense. As revealing as a face, they are sometimes capable, on their own, of symbolising an entire of human activity, like the Hand of a Pianist which seems to run along an imaginary piano with nervous energy. 

The Study of the Secret is a study of a pair of delicate hands moving free, which is more like a dance figure without any symbolic resonance. 

A left hand and a right hand coming close together as a couple dancing.

Rodin hands have both an expressive and symbolic value. Like the Two Hands they personify gesture. Separated from the body they become studies and occasionally acquire monumental value. 

The hand of god who made the female torso.

The hand of Auguste without the female torso.