2009-04-25

Finished 26th April 2009

"KILIMANJARO"
Finished after 10 hours (16:00)


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next day - 10:00 - 12:00 = after 8 hours
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after 6 hours
tired and nuts, but happy about success!! :-))
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1000 pieces "Ethnic collection"
KILIMANJARO

started on 25th april 2009 - 19:00

2009-04-13

Finished 13th april 2009 + updated June 2014

 1000 pieces

Bridge over River Tiber, Rome
In the background: St. Peters Cathedral

In May 2014 I stood at the same place:



 

2009-04-11

Letter from Australia

Just some days ago I found this Lord of the Rings-Jigsaw Puzzle Book
including five 12-piece-jigsaw puzzles - at ebay Australia. Just take a look:





editor's notes
Title: The Lord Of The Rings - The Two Towers - Jigsaw Book incl. 5 Jigsaws Inside
The Five Mile Press, Australia, 2003
ISBN 1 86503 698 6

2009-04-10

2009-04-09

Finished 9th April 2009

 *1000 pieces*
Through the ages: Renaissance
clockwise description, starting top left:

Romeo & Juliet - Illustration, 1595
Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Book Illustration: "Le livre des femmes nobles" Boccaccio, 1410
The Sistine Madonna, Raffael, 1513
Adam & Eve, Dürer, 1504
Self Portrait, Dürer (1471-1528)
"The young Hare", Dürer, 1502
"The Creation of Adam", Michelangelo, 1511/12
"The Spring", Botticelli, 1477
"Mona Lisa", da Vinci, 1503
"David", Sculpture, Michelangelo, 1501-1504
Angels, famous detail taken from below the "Sistine Madonna"
Mapa mundi, Dürer, 1515
St. Peter's Basilica, newly constructed 1506
French Fashion, 16th century
Portrait of Orlando Lasso, Composer (1532-1594)
Penitential Psalms, O. Lasso, 1560
"Praying hands", Dürer, 1508
"The Vitruvian Man", da Vinci, 1492
Portait of Leonardo da Vinvi, Universial Genius, 1452-1519
Portrait of Johannes Gutenberg, Inventor of book printing (1397-1468)
Book page from the bible, printed by Gutenberg, 1455
Portrait of Martin Luther, German Reformator (1483-1546)
Title Page of "Biblia", the german translation by Luther, 1534
Ornamental flowers - book printing from the Gutenberg bible, 1455
Portrait of Dante Alighieri, Italian Poet, 1265-1321
Second half of the Mapa Mundi by Dürer
Illustration: "The Divine Comedy", Alighieri, 1307-21

center: The Birth of Venus", Sandro Botticelli, 1482

2009-04-07

Finished 7th april 2009

 1000 pieces

Lord of the Rings
left: the fellowship of the ring
middle: The two towers
right: return of the king
detail: Aragorn and Arwen - eternal love