Completed 22nd February 2026

 500 Pieces

 

Ahrensburg Castle

Era: renaissance 

 

Ahrensburg Castle is located in the town of Ahrensburg, named after the castle district, in southern Schleswig-Holstein, about 30 kilometres northeast of Hamburg city centre. The small moated castle is actually a manor house and, as such, was once the centre of a noble estate. 

 

I visited the castle in 2012 and transferred a photography into a jigsaw puzzle. Now I have awakened it from its slumber 

 

 

Our dog had fun rubbing herself on the lawn in front of the castle.

 

Finished 18th march 2009 + 5th August 2023

500 pieces

Renaissance sun

 

Manufacturer: Clementoni "Fantasy Series" 

Finished 6th August 2022

  

500 Pieces

Chambord Castle

 47° 36′ 58″ N, 1° 31′ 2″ E

The Château de Chambord in France, close to the city of Blois, is one of the most recognisable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by Francis I

^{Photographer: Tony Stone}

^{Manufacturer: Ravensburger, 1976}

 The detail shows the so-called corps de logis

Development process of a vintage MB jigsaw puzzle

 The jigsaw puzzle shows Ahrensburg Castle in the northeast of Hamburg, Germany.

53° 40′ 48,4″ N, 10° 14′ 24,5″ O

I've been there in 2012: 

Isn't it nice? The castle was built in the late 16th c. 

and re-built on my table in 2020:

Finished 12th November 2017

220 Pieces

Detail from "The last supper" by Leonardo da Vinci

8,8 x 4,6 m - it is a late 15th-century mural painting (fresco secco) housed by the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It is one of the world's most recognizable paintings.

An Impronte Edizione jigsaw puzzle 

Finished 6th September 2017

220 Pieces

Angelo Musicante Il Putto che suona

by Rosso Fiorentino (aka Giovanni Battista di Jacopo di Gaspare)

* 1495 Florence, Italiy +1540 Paris

Il Rosso was an Italian Mannerist painter, in oil and fresco, belonging to the Florentine school.

After his studies in Rome he moved to Fontainebleau to the king's court. From 1530 Il Rosso was Court Painter to king Francois I. 

The Angel is on display at the Uffici in Florence, Italy.

Jigsaw Puzzle made by Impronte Edizione, Italy

Finished 8th November 2016

 500 Pieces

Chateau de Chenonceau, France

47° 19′ 30″ N, 1° 4′ 14.16″ E

built by Philibert de l'Orme during the 16th century.

It is one of the best-known palaces of the Loire valley. It is an architectural mixture of late gothic era and early renaissance era.

A Castorland jigsaw puzzle

assembled during a marathon within 4.5 hours

Finished 8th March and updated 9th March 2016

140 Pieces

William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham and his Family dining (1567)
by: Master of the Countess of Warwick
Dimension: 120 x 92 cm - Oil on Wood
Longleat House, Wiltshire

A Wentworth Wooden Jigsaw with some interesting details

Finished 7th February 2016

 500 Pieces

"Vue de Lyon et de la colline de Fourvière, 1523"

View of Lyon and the hill of Fourvière, 1523

 45° 45′ 45.19″ N, 4° 49′ 18.24″ E

Painting by Guillaume II Le Roy (?-1528/1529)

Pierre Sala: Les Prouesses de plusieurs roys

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Illuminations/Manuscrits

 Fourvière is the site of the original Roman settlement of Lugdunum (43 BC). The hill in the west of Lyon contains many religious buildings including convents, monasteries and chapels. It is known in Lyon as "the hill that prays".

 Cathedral St. John the Baptist of Lyon, view from the River Saône

Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon

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assembled during 4,5 hours

 

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