Thursday Doors – Where are the Hands

Yesterday, while I was completing my post about my trip to Warsaw (which I’d visited during Easter this year), I happened to find this lovely door in my photo archives.

It belongs to the Jesuit Church of Our Lady Mary the Merciful, in the old town. It was part of a monastery in 1621. The monastery ceased to exist in 1773 but the church stayed on. However, it was almost completely destroyed in WW2 like most of Warsaw. Luckily, the original architectural records survived and came handy during the reconstruction in later years.

I wonder what was the artist’s intention in giving the sculptures this “cut-off-hands” appearance! Any thoughts?

For Dan’s Thursday Doors.