Photo: Birds into clouds, August 28, 2012
Puzzle: Da Vinci’s World
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 48cm x 68cm
Producer: Educa, Art Collection series, 13050
Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
Notes: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, …
Photo: Raindrop on lemon tree, August 29, 2012
Puzzle: Chateau Chenonceaux, France
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 69.85cm x 54.61cm
Producer: Golden, Guild Puzzle, Tony Craddock / Tony Stone, ISBN: 0-307-04710-5
Notes: The Chateau de Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire departement of the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed …
Photo: Ottawa River Sunset, August 28, 2012
Puzzle: La Roche Courbon Castle, France
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 51.12cm x 66.52cm
Producer: Big Ben, MB Puzzles, Hasbro, 2007
Notes: Chateau de la Roche Courbon is a large chateau, developed from an earlier castle, in the Charente-Maritime departement of France. It is in the commune of Saint-Porchaire between Saintes and Rochefort.
A castle was built around 1475 by Jehan de Latour, on site which had been inhabited since prehistoric times. In the 17th century, the Courbon family, …
Photo: Book of lost tales in leaves, August 29, 2012
Puzzle: European Montage by Jim Zuckerman
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.5cm
Producer: Sure-Lox
Artist: Jim Zuckerman
Notes: Photomontage is the process and result of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through …
Puzzle: Fairy Dance
Size: 550 pieces
Dimensions: 60.96cm x 45.72cm
Producer: Ceaco, Meiklejohn Graphics, 2003, #2333-14
Notes: The folklores of the British Isles contain a wealth of fairy lore, including the idea from which fairy rings take their name: the phenomena result from the dancing of fairies. In 19th-century Wales, fairies were almost invariably described as dancing in a group when encountered, and in Scotland and Wales in the late 20th century, stories about fairy rings …
Puzzle: Peacock Daze by Josephine Wall
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 33.02cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Mega Brands America, 2008, #50884
Artist: Josephine Wall
Notes: Deep in the heart of a rose filled garden, overpowered by an intoxicating perfume, a maiden is transported into a world of daydreams. As she drifts into a trance like state, she imagines herself adorned with peacocks and exotic flowers. She enjoys her fleeting moments of escapism. [Josephine Wall’s site]
Puzzle: Heart and Soul by Josephine Wall
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 33.02cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Mega Brands America, 2008, #50884
Artist: Josephine Wall
Notes: The butterfly maiden looks inquiringly up at the heavens, soul-searching as she watches the clouds form layer upon layer of strange and wonderful lands.Beneath her multicoloured, gossamer headdress beats the heart of a lion offering strength to the gentle souls in flight.A swirl of flowers forming a garland around the “Queen …
Puzzle: Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 80.65cm x 56.2cm
Producer: The Canadian Group, Sure-Lox, It’s Framed series, 2004, #80630
Notes: The Hotel de Ville in Paris, France, is the building housing the City of Paris’s administration.
In July 1357, Etienne Marcel, provost of the merchants (i.e. mayor) of Paris, bought the so-called maison aux piliers (“House of Pillars”) in the name of the municipality on the gently sloping shingle beach which served as a …
Puzzle: Treasury of Splendor by Nicky Boehme
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 73cm x 48.57cm
Author: Nicky Boehme
Producer: Sure-Lox, the Canadian Group, 2011, #44716-2
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Puzzle: Iris – Keeper of the Rainbow by Josephine Wall
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 33.02cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Mega Brands America, 2008, #50884
Artist: Josephine Wall
Notes: Throughout the ages, the rainbow has been the symbol of hope, a promise of better things to come. The ancient Greeks personified the rainbow as the goddess Iris, the favourite handmaiden and messenger of Hera, the queen of the heavenly court of Olympus. Carried by her shimmering wings, …
Puzzle: My Lady Unicorn by Josephine Wall
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 33.02cm x 48.26cm
Producer: Mega Brands America, 2008, #50884
Artist: Josephine Wall
Notes: All Unicorns are special creatures with magical powers beyond our imagination, but on a distant world lives a species called ladycorns! These beautiful and mysterious beings are able to communicate either by voice or with an array of musical sounds created by a harp like growth on their forehead. Their …
Puzzle: Nanette’s Cottage by Thomas Kinkade
Size: 1000 pieces
Dimensions: 69cm x 51cm
Producer: Ceaco, 2009, #3310-90
Artist: Thomas Kinkade
Notes: Thomas has placed a total of 25 N’s within this painting in special commemoration and tribute to his wife Nanette, for her partnership in his 25 years as a published artist. The inspiration for this painting came about from a cottage just like this, in which Thomas and Nanette lived in, in England …
Puzzle: Dragon Spell
Size: 300 pieces
Dimensions: 45.72cm x 35.56cm
Author: Meiklejohn Graphics, UK/Applejack Licensing
Producer: Ceaco, 3 Glow in the Dark Jigsaw Puzzles, # 3562-2
Notes: Evocation is the act of calling or summoning a spirit, demon, god or other supernatural agent, in the Western mystery tradition. Comparable practices exist in many religions and magical traditions.
Conjuration in traditional and most contemporary usage refers to a magical act of invoking spirits or using incantations or …
Puzzle: Blue Dragon by Richard Kelly
Size: 500 pieces
Dimensions: 30.48cm x 40.64cm
Artist: Richard Kelly
Producer: Ceaco, 3 Glow in the Dark Jigsaw Puzzles, # 3562-2
Notes: A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and which is ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the …
Puzzle: Spellbound by Myles Pinkney
Size: 100 pieces
Dimensions: 22.86cm x 17.78cm
Artist: Myles Pinkney, 2003
Producer: Ceaco, 3 Glow in the Dark Jigsaw Puzzles, # 3562-2
Box: photo
Notes: Spellbound
The night is darkening round me,
The wild winds coldly blow;
But a tyrant spell has bound me
And I cannot, cannot go.
The giant trees are bending
Their bare boughs weighed with snow.
And …
Puzzle: Holland Tulips
Size: 300 pieces
Dimensions: 45.72cm x 35.56cm
Author: M.Thonig / H.Armstrong Roberts
Producer: Golden Guild
Notes: Tulip mania or tulipomania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed.
At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled …