Art quiz: Name the artist who drew these hands.

Can You Tell Which Famous Artist Drew These Floating Hands?

Can You Tell Which Famous Artist Drew These Floating Hands?

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Feb. 17 2016 12:11 PM

Which Famous Artist Drew These Floating Hands?

See if you can handle this week’s quiz.

Study of hands by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1474.
Study of hands by you’ll-have-to-take-the-quiz-to-find-out circa we’re-not-telling.

Photo illustration by Slate. Image by Royal Library, Windsor/Wikimedia Commons.

Sorry, folks. Ken Jennings is out this week, so there is no news quiz. Instead, please enjoy the latest edition of our ​other​ weekly quiz, Quizzical.

Last summer we challenged you to identify famous paintings based on a single eye or other tiny details. For the fourth installment of Quizzical, Slate’s new weekly quiz, we test your artistic knowledge once again. This time, we’ve given you a hand—actually nine sketches of disembodied, floating hands, rendered carefully or casually by great artists. Some are stony; some are silky. Some are studies for larger works; some are just lonely hands. Can you match the hands to the artist?