Ravensburger
3000 pieces
SUPER fun puzzle !!! we both really loved this one.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Oceanic Wonders
Oceanic Wonders
Ravensburger
3000 pieces
SUPER fun puzzle !!! we both really loved this one.
Ravensburger
3000 pieces
SUPER fun puzzle !!! we both really loved this one.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Joseph Stella - The Voice of the City
Joseph Stella - The Voice of the City
Pomegranate
1000 pieces
I don't know why, but this puzzle was only semi-interesting to do. Not great...
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, New York stood as the grandest expression of the United States's technological and financial world dominance. Joseph Stella's monumental painting The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted, a panoramic, five-paneled view of 1920s Manhattan, evokes the dizzying dynamism and awe-inspiring spectacle of the city. Measuring more than twenty feet long, The Voice of the City presents key Manhattan landmarks at night, starting on the west side with the Battery, then moving to the middle of the island with Broadway's Great White Way (featured on this puzzle) and the skyscrapers, and ending in the east with the Brooklyn Bridge. Below are tunnels for trains, electricity, and plumbing. Stella (1877-1946), who immigrated to New York in 1896 from a small town in southern Italy, interpreted American technology in religious terms, conveyed by the altarpiece format and deep, saturated colors that give the appearance of stained glass windows.Purchased in 1937 from Stella's Newark-based gallery, Rabin and Krueger, The Voice of the City reflects the Newark Museum's commitment, dating from its founding, to educate, inspire, and transform individuals of all ages and the local, regional, national, and international communities it servers.The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The White Way 1 (detail), 1920-1922 by Joseph Stella (American, b. Italy, 1877-1946). Puzzle size 20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm)
Pomegranate
1000 pieces
I don't know why, but this puzzle was only semi-interesting to do. Not great...
In the opening decades of the twentieth century, New York stood as the grandest expression of the United States's technological and financial world dominance. Joseph Stella's monumental painting The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted, a panoramic, five-paneled view of 1920s Manhattan, evokes the dizzying dynamism and awe-inspiring spectacle of the city. Measuring more than twenty feet long, The Voice of the City presents key Manhattan landmarks at night, starting on the west side with the Battery, then moving to the middle of the island with Broadway's Great White Way (featured on this puzzle) and the skyscrapers, and ending in the east with the Brooklyn Bridge. Below are tunnels for trains, electricity, and plumbing. Stella (1877-1946), who immigrated to New York in 1896 from a small town in southern Italy, interpreted American technology in religious terms, conveyed by the altarpiece format and deep, saturated colors that give the appearance of stained glass windows.Purchased in 1937 from Stella's Newark-based gallery, Rabin and Krueger, The Voice of the City reflects the Newark Museum's commitment, dating from its founding, to educate, inspire, and transform individuals of all ages and the local, regional, national, and international communities it servers.The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted: The White Way 1 (detail), 1920-1922 by Joseph Stella (American, b. Italy, 1877-1946). Puzzle size 20 x 29 in. (50.8 x 73.7 cm)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Tower of Babel
The Tower of Babel
Pomegranate
1000 pieces
This was actually a bit challenging. Also got us hooked on the concept of the Tower of Babel
The Bedford Hours, now among the finest treasures of the British Library, is one of the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts in existence. Produced in the fifteenth century over a period of twenty or more years in the studio of the Bedford Master-whose identity remained a mystery for several centuries-the manuscript contains scores of elaborate medallions and miniature scenes surrounded by painstakingly detailed scrollwork, initials, line-fillers, and other artistic adornments. The image reproduced here, one of the Bedford Hours' major painted pages, is a depiction of the Tower of Babel story from Genesis. Assembled puzzle measures 20 x 29.
Pomegranate
1000 pieces
This was actually a bit challenging. Also got us hooked on the concept of the Tower of Babel
The Bedford Hours, now among the finest treasures of the British Library, is one of the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts in existence. Produced in the fifteenth century over a period of twenty or more years in the studio of the Bedford Master-whose identity remained a mystery for several centuries-the manuscript contains scores of elaborate medallions and miniature scenes surrounded by painstakingly detailed scrollwork, initials, line-fillers, and other artistic adornments. The image reproduced here, one of the Bedford Hours' major painted pages, is a depiction of the Tower of Babel story from Genesis. Assembled puzzle measures 20 x 29.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Fairy Tales
Fairy Tales by James Christensen
Sunsout
1500 Piece
The trouble with this puzzle brand is that if you make small thematic assemblages outside of the borders, you can't pick pieces up at all to carry them into the puzzle as a group. Very frustrating. But the picture is great and the theme was very fun.
Most of the fairy tales were ones we could recognize, but not all... Any ideas?
Here is the key to each one:
Sunsout
1500 Piece
The trouble with this puzzle brand is that if you make small thematic assemblages outside of the borders, you can't pick pieces up at all to carry them into the puzzle as a group. Very frustrating. But the picture is great and the theme was very fun.
Most of the fairy tales were ones we could recognize, but not all... Any ideas?
Here is the key to each one:
Monday, December 12, 2011
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