Finished 30th December 2010

1000 Pieces

The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas (1834-1917)

The Original painting can be visited at the worldfamous Musée d'Orsay, Paris.
It measures 85 x 75 cm and was painted in 1875.

A Ravensburger jigsaw puzzle (Art Collection - series)

Finished 28th December 2010

1500 Pieces

The Coronation of Emperor Napoleon I. and his Empress Josefine
Jacques-Louis David

wikipedia

Finished 26th December 2010

500 Pieces

The Lybian Sibyl by Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564)
Sistine Chapel, Vatican, Italy

A Sibyl is a prophetess, named after Varro, an ancient historian. According to one of his books, there are ten sibyls. Each of them bears an attribute regarding her provenance. The lybian sibyl foretold the coming of the day, when everything, that is hidden, should be revealed.

The sistine chapel was restored 1980-1994.

Finished 25th December 2010

2000 Pieces

Village Hideaway by Howard Behrens (born 1933), a popular american artist known as "Monet of the 21st century". He uses the palette knife to paint and compose his paintings.

If you want to learn more about Howard Behrens, please visit www.howardbehrens.com and don't miss to watch his galleries.

Finished 22nd December 2010

I wish you a merry christmas

1000 pieces

General bear by Lev Lominago, a russian hagiographer and artist (1944-1999)

Finished 14th december 2010

1000 Pieces

State dining room - Buckingham Palace
Vintage english Jigsaw Puzzle dated approx. 1965-1972

Finished 12th december 2010 + updated 25th August 2016 (new picture)

 1000 Pieces

The Taj Mahal
Ethnic Collection, Clementoni (Italy)

Finished 11th December 2010

1000 Pieces

Lady with a fan - by Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) (Detail)

This is a masterpiece of austrain Art Nouveau and is named to have a tragic story. It was one of the last two paintings finished by the famous artist. The canvas was still on the easel when Klimt died. In 1994 it was sold in an auction for 10 million $.

Klimts "golden era" was inspired by byzantine mosaics: dots of colours are embedded in a mount of gold

Finished 8th December 2010 + updated 9th April 2014

992 Teile

Ancient Astronomical Map

Engraved by I Van Loon circa 1660
Original Chart by courtesy of the Raymond O'Shea Gallery

"This chart was first printed in the 1660 celestial atlas of Andreas Cellarius. True to the theory that geography is impossible without a proficient knowledge of astronomy, Cellarius, in this chart, superimposed the heavens upon a perspective of the earth which includes the Arctic Circle, parts of Europe, Asia, America and Australis, then called Nova Hollandia.

Andreas Cellarius was an obscure but interesting 17th century figure, born around 1630 in the German Palatinate. A writer of mathematics, history and architecture as well as a celestial cartographer, Cellarius was assumed to be Rector of the SCHOLA HORNANA in the northern Dutch town of Hoorne.

Cellarius is remembered principally for his great celestial atlas. It opens with one of the most ornamental frontispices ever executed. The following 29 charts with their sun, moon and planets, engravings of mathematicians, scholars, astronomers, signs of the zodiac and mythological beasts, illustrate the cosmological systems of Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe and Copernicus.

The 1660 celestial atlas of Andreas Cellarius is a magnificent example of 17th century astronomical cartography and is one of the era's finest displays of decorative copper-plate engraving and printing. The atlas was so successful, that it was reprinted in 1661 and 1708."

(information in bold letters taken from the box of an "Optimago" handcut wooden jigsaw puzzle with approx. 600 pcs.)

Finished 3rd + 4th December 2010

500 Pieces
Venice, Rialto Bridge
Ravensburger Star Line Jigsaw - glows in the dark

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700 Pieces

View of the golden Temple of Wat pra Khaeo, home of the green Buddha

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500 Pieces
"Chico"

Finished 2nd December 2010

500 pieces (-2 pieces)
Map of the world - 1973

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45 pieces
"Angels"