José de Ribera, El Greco, Diego Velázquez

We use the word monster in order to characterize the hands that present a disorder. Obviously a monster hand is the hand that physiologically is different of the usual and custom hand but it´s still a hand.

However, what distinguished a normal from a monster hand depends on the CONTEXT that belongs. El Greco´s "hands" were monster hands in their epoch.(Efi Giannopoulou)

Hands are one of the most significant limits of the human body; they are the end of the figure, a boundary difficult to draw, but fundamental in the composition of the painting. Looking for hands in painting is looking for how painters had resolved the problem of the hands.

But looking for monster hands in painting is looking for different entities. Monster is a large, ugly and frightening imaginary creature. The painted hand seems that it has its own identity, like a strange creature which sends signals.But the painted hand is painted by the painters hand…