Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Netherlands. Show all posts

2026-07-18

Terminated due to incompleteness

 During the Megamarathon I started assembling an Innovakids Jigsaw puzzle and terminated it due to time constraints. It would have taken me too much time to finish the pink sky


I restarted it by assembling the clouds, the inscription as well as the frame, just to find out that 4 pieces are missing.
 
 
This is where I decided to terminate this jigsaw puzzle
 

 

2026-07-07

Completed 3rd - 5th July 2026 - 28th Megamarathon

 What a Megamarathon :-)

Meeting friends, enjoying dozens of jigsaw puzzles together 

Trying to beat a record

(Informations will be added very soon!) 






















2024-06-16

Completed 16th June 2024

  

6000 Pieces

Allegory of Sight and Smell (detail), ca. 1620 AD

Oil on canvas, 264 x 176 cm

Jan Brueghel the Younger
Antwerp (Belgium), 1601 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1678
Hendrick van Balen
 Antwerp, 1575, 1632
Frans Francken II
Antwerp, 1581 - Antwerp, 1642
Sebastian Vrancx
Amberes, 1573 - Amberes, 1647

Jan Brueghel the Younger was a Flemish painter. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Jan Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. 

 The artist was nicknamed "Velvet" Brueghel, "Flower" Brueghel, and "Paradise" Brueghel. The first is believed to have been given him because of his mastery in the rendering of fabrics.

Jan Brueghel's works reflect the contemporary interest in the classification and ordering of all of the natural world. Brueghel produced various sets of allegorical paintings, in particular on the themes of the Five senses and the Four Elements. These paintings were often collaborations with other painters .... like Five senses on which Brueghel and Rubens collaborated and which are now in the Prado Museum in Madrid LINK 

The jigsaw puzzle was manufactured by Clementoni, Italy, 

and has been edited in the so-called Museum Collection.

2022-01-15

Megamarathon, the 19th edition - 7th > 9th January 2022

 Oh yes, it was Megamarathon again. Seems like the 18th edition took place just a few weeks ago ...  as time goes by.

We pulverized our previous all-time-record of approx. 203k pieces and managed to assemble 271,413 pieces all together. My slice of this cake were 5.018 pcs which is a personal record :-)

Here we go with the jigsaw puzzles

200 pcs.
Copy of a byzantine icon
Adoration of the Magi by Michail Damaskinos, 17th c.

300 pcs.
Flowers in New York
Photo by Lewis Miller
Ravensburger

260 Pieces
Día de los Muertos
an important festive day in Mexico to commemorate the deceased. 
Celebrated between 31st october and 2nd November
MITstudio/Shutterstock
Bluebird Puzzles, Turkey

192 Pieces
High-speed Craft "Halunder Jet"
A SeaBus built in the Philippines in 2018 and used to travel between Hamburg and the island Helgoland


204 Pieces
Hummingbirds
Ravensburger
 

500 Pieces
"Lady in Hat"
Castorland

294 Pieces
A TugBoat in Antwerp, Netherlands
GrafikaKids

200 Pieces
Christ the Winetree
Copy of a byzantine icon

500 Pieces
DEG Metro Stars at Düsseldorf, Germany
Artist: Bernd Natke
MOCA333

50 Pieces
Travelling through the skies
Sergej Adeew, 2008
Wooden jigsaw puzzle by DaVici, Russia

500 Pieces
St. Peters from Tiber River, Rome
MB Belvedere, 1968

500 Pieces
Venice, Italy
by D-Toys, Romania

1000 Pieces
 Eiffel Tower
by D-Toys


2020-07-07

2019-12-30

Finished 30th December 2019

 150 Pieces

Painting in Amsterdam
a LONDJI jigsaw puzzle with micro-sized pieces


2019-07-27

Finished 27th July 2019 ** Amsterdam

500 Pieces

Amsterdam
52° 22′ 28″ N, 4° 53′ 1″ E

The church is "The Westerkerk". Rembrandt van Rijn and his son are buried here.

A vintage jigsaw puzzle by Ravensburger

2019-07-23

Finished 21st July 2019 ** historic windmills and houses in the Netherlands

500 Pieces

Zaanse Schans, Netherlands
52°28′26″N 4°48′59″E

 Zaanse Schans is a neighbourhood of Zaandam. It is best known for its collection of well-preserved historic windmills and houses. From 1961 to 1974 old buildings from all over the Zaanstreek were relocated using lowboy trailers to the area. The Zaans Museum, established in 1994 near the first Zaanse Schans windmill, is located south of the neighbourhood.

2017-08-26