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Educa 1997.
Jan Brueghel the Elder: The Animals board Noah's Ark (1613).
Credited to Jan Brueghel II on the box.
Educa 11043
1000 pieces, used and complete
68 x 48 cm
TED: "S'OK folks, I ain't gonna jump off this roof lol... it jest looks like it! This nice pikchur is a place in Spane wot sum ole geezer called Gowdee desyned, back in olden times. I ain't never bin there, an' it looks like I won't be goin' anytime soon, now that Covid fingy is goin' around. It spoiled me Suffolk holibob an' it looks like it's gonna ruin me Greek one too."
*sad*
"Oh yeah, it wuz all there - good!"
2020 piece count: 31839
Puzzle 39
"Alexander the Great visits the studio of Apelles" by Willem van Haecht. This has to be the most enjoyable & fulfilling puzzle I have ever done, I loved ever minute of it.
This is without a doubt my favorite puzzle of the 18,000-piece size. Educa got it right: choosing an image with sharp colors, great resolution, and fantastic detail. There aren't any weird color variations between the sections you get on many other biggie puzzles.
I assembled this from about May until November of 2010. I didn't have a good camera at the time but just took it out of storage this morning.
Because of its size, this one is probably the hardest one I've ever done. But the 10,000 piece "Las Hilanderas" is a pretty close second because of so many dark areas.
This is one puzzle you're better off assembling on the floor!
{Actual # of pieces: 18,000 (222 X 81, plus 18 extra half-sized pieces)}
Nr. 2014-36
Titel: Piccadilly Circus
Teile: 1000
Hersteller: Educa
Jahr: 2014
Artikel-Nr. 15981
Größe: 68 x 48 cm
Gelegt: 23.-24.03.2014
Educa Sallent Puzzle (Spain, 1996), No. 7.814
3.000 pcs (60x50), 120 x 85 cm.
Factory-sealed. Superb Educa quality.
Thanks, Jorge!
With the sun gone, this image is probably more faithful to the finished puzzle.
Benozzo Gozzoli (c. 1421 – 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. He is best known for a series of murals in the Magi Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, depicting festive, vibrant processions with fine attention to detail and a pronounced International Gothic influence. The chapel's fresco cycle reveals a new Renaissance interest in nature with its realistic depiction of landscapes and vivid human portraits. Gozzoli is considered one of the most prolific fresco painters of his generation. While he was mainly active in Tuscany, he also worked in Umbria and Rome.
Educa
Museum series 11803
cardboard
1,500 pieces, used and complete
85x60cm
2023 piece count: 127,161
puzzle no: 185
TED: "Aaargh, a weddin's goin' on 'ere an I fergot to get a present!
Hahaha no not reely, it's annuvver jigsaw pussle frum me collekshun, but there's a lot of brides in it. It's a bit bigger - fifteen 'undred peeces - but it diddunt take long cuz the peeces wuz nice an' fit togevver reel good. An it's compleat - so we're all 'appy!"
Educa
7.678
card
1,000 pieces
68 x 48 cm
TED: "Look, all this 'arty-f*rty' pusslin' is all verry well, but can we do sum more int'restin' stuff, like trains an' ships an' wartime pikchurs?
This one's brite - that's all rite - but there's a nuddy lady in it, so it spoils the pikchur, dunnit?
I dun the lite bits first, then all the reddish bits, an' left that 'orribul nekkid lady to the end.
I s'pose all yew lot'll say it's art an' make me feel gilty fer not likin' it - well yew can say that if yew wants but I no wot I like an' I don't like this!
*feeling aggrieved*
Educa (Spain, 2002) No. 11758.
2.000 pcs, 96 x 68 cm.
Herbert James Draper (1863(or 1864)–1920) was an English painter in the Victorian era. In the mythological subject area his paintings include Lament for Icarus, Ulysses and the Sirens, The Sea Maiden, The Kelpie, and The Vintage Morn. Herbert Draper had, in his lifetime, a considerable reputation, which declined rapidly, probably before his death. It is difficult to find much information about Draper the man, though it is a matter of record he attended the funeral of Waterhouse, his close neighbour, in 1917. His residence in St John’s Wood attests to his material success.
Considering Educa's dominant local market position, it requires some courage to establish a new puzzle producer on the Iberian Peninsula. 2010 founded Portuguese company mesaboardgames had the guts, and started to produce a small but lovely range of 1,000 pieces, all of them with domestic reference, in 2014.
On a recent vacation in the magnificent city of Lisbon, I discovered this brand, but limited luggage capacity would allow only one puzzle on the flight home, so I went for this charming painting.
The puzzle is of very good manufacturing quality, bright colours and solid cardboard. Almost all pieces are standard-shaped, just a few wavy cuts in between. As some noses have very similar shapes, you'll end up with some misplacements when placing pieces with only a single connecting edge.
I actually like the way the original, uncropped painting is 'stretched' to puzzle measures by the monochrome background at the bottom (and prefer this true-to-the-original technique to the common cropping of art designs in puzzles).
Although without use of the reference for the first time (inspired by some guy from Billsville), the puzzle turned out to be pretty easy sledding.
Statistics
stage 1: 578 pieces in 4:04 h (142 pph / pieces per hour)
Been busy with other projects, but I finally finished this beautiful puzzle. I originally stated it was digital art, but I think it's an actual painting. A lot tougher than I expected.
In a moment of madness I mixed the bags. For 2 weeks and 3 days I have the much larger living room space to get started but then I have to move the puzzle upstairs to a much smaller room so I hope the fit is snug and I can move sections upstairs on smaller boards. If it is like a Ravensburger 18000 I could have a serious problem before completion. My first Educa puzzle ...
The end of this puzzle, finally!
I'm pleased that although not very fond of it, I managed to complete it. This was a new puzzle experience for me in that I was caught between wasting time on a puzzle and wasting a puzzle. The puzzle won this round.
As for what happened to Tristan and Isolde after the end of the song…..Tristan left and later married another Isolde. Tristan fell gravely ill after being wounded in battle and sent for Isolde of Cornwall to cure him as she had done when they first met. He requested that the ship from Cornwall have white sails if it carried Isolde and black sails if it did not. Isolde set off in a ship with white sails. Sadly Tristan's jealous wife told him the ship that arrived had black sails. Thinking that Isolde had rejected him he died of grief before she could reach him. Upon reaching Tristan, Isolde also died of grief. It was thought however that they could not be parted even in death…from Isolde's grave grew a rose tree and from Tristan's a vine which grew around the rose tree. Each time the vine was cut down it grew again.
So they died happily ever after.
Great puzzle of a naval battle. 6,000 pieces, manufactured by Educa in the late-1990s. Not sure of the artist on this one. As you can see here, I have the puzzle mounted ... with plans to put a frame around it.
Finished! As I've mentioned, this was a very fun puzzle, and fairly easy, as large puzzles go. 10 weeks on a puzzle this large is quite short for the amount of time I get to spend on puzzling. But I'd recommend it to anyone looking for an enjoyable build.
Educa 7.767
copyright 1994
1000 pieces, used and with one missing piece
68x48cm
TED: "I fawt it wuz too good to be true! The last umpteen pussles 'ave bin compleat but this one's got a peece missin' - drat! It's a pikchur of a lickle girl at the docter's. She's took 'er dolly to see 'im an' 'e's lissenin' to 'er chest fru' 'is stefoscope-fingummyjig.
Yew won't catch me visitin' the docter cuz I wears me mask like a good bear - I got a new one now, it's one wot Mum adapted fer me. If yew arsks nicely I mite show yew a better pikchur of it..."
2021 piece count: 35949
Puzzle 41
Only 1500 pieces but one of my favourite artists for puzzles. I'm looking forward to Educa's new 3000 Echo and Narcissus by the same artist.
Sadly a number of computer generated collage type pictures have made their way into the Educa new range. I will be giving their new 6000 a miss as well ......Toadstool cottage.
Bought this puzzle used but thankfully complete, with the bags already mixed (I think there were originally two?), completed from March-October 2022.
Just enough variety and detail to make progress challenging but not unfeasible. I enjoyed this puzzle immensely; the quality of the image and the piece fit are both excellent. Back in the box for eventual framing, if I ever find the energy, interest, and courage to dust off my routing table.
Educa No. 7.879. Early 1990's. 1.500 pcs, 85 x 60cm. A perennial favorite. Done 6 times.
The Battle of Lepanto, 7 October 1571
The loss of Cyprus to the Turks in 1571 provoked action by the Christian league under Don Juan of Austria, the illegitimate half-brother of Philip II of Spain. A fleet of over 200 galleys proceeded to the Gulf of Lepanto (now Naupactos) where they met the Turkish fleet on 7 October 1571. The galleys were mainly Venetian and Spanish but also included squadrons from the Papal States and Genoa. Although the Christians were outnumbered on the flanks they triumphed in the centre and the Turks were eventually defeated.
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
This was a very fast, super fun puzzle! I'd highly recommend it. There was never a dull moment! And I only had one time where the repeating pattern bit me. I got one of the underwater pieces in the wrong spot. It was close to one of the last pieces when I finally noticed it, and I didn't even know where to check because I'd never even looked for a repeating pattern!
Turns out, of course, that its 3 repetitions of a 1000 piece cut, and it repeats every 25 pieces horizontally. Interesting to know, but other than that one time, I never used it.
Anyway, fun puzzle. I highly recommend it!
I got this puzzle for Christmas. Started on it about new years. It took me 5 weeks, meaning this is one of the easier puzzles I've done. Nice bright, easily identifiable colors. All in all, a very fun build, even with Educa's lack of piece variety. I'd give it two thumbs up!
By the time I worked with the longitude and latitude lines there were not too many just sea pieces so have not found this puzzle too demanding. I was though left with two incorrect pieces but it didn't take me long to find them. Also I had to adjust some of the edge pieces that were in the wrong repeating pattern group. I also found I had the top left and bottom right piece next to the corner piece transposed as there is a tiny bit of flag on one of them. I have enjoyed this puzzle as I always like maps and it has refreshed my knowledge of the world.
Mappa Mundi 1375 by Abraham Cresques, also known as the Catalan Atlas.
A puzzle I have always wanted to do since I saw it for the first time in 2015. The older 4000 pc version in Piecefull's Gallery blew me away.
Educa (Spain) No. 10091, bought in Denmark in 2002.
1.500 pcs, 85 x 60 cm.
Yet another dark winter photo, it looks better in person.
I wonder how many have seen this puzzle before?
Manuel Rodríguez de la Parra Castellano (3 February 1823/26, Madrid - 3 April 1880, Madrid) was a Spanish costumbrista painter and engraver in the Romantic style, known especially for his bullfight scenes. He was also a noted art collector.
In 1856, he won honorable mention at the first National Exhibition of Fine Arts for his painting of the picadors preparing their horses at the old bullring in Madrid (demolished in 1874), which incorporates portraits of many of the period's most popular bullfighters, including Paquiro.
Time is getting closer to my next Camino walk in Spain and hopefully I will be able to upload the rest of my collection before I go.
I completed this puzzle early this afternoon. It was so much fun and turned out a lot better than I originally thought it would. The colors are a lot brighter than I thought they would be from the box. I finished the puzzle in 5 days which is a record for me for a 4000 piece puzzle. My previous best was 7 days. The puzzle was produced in 2005.
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was born in Czechoslovakia and was an Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist. He is best known for the "Slav Epic" which is a series of 20 paintings dedicated to explaining the heritage of his people. In 1939 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia Mucha was arrested because of his works and while being interrogated caught pneumonia which may have contributed to his death in July 1939.
"Art Nouveau is considered a "total" art style, embracing architecture, graphic art, interior design, and most of the decorative arts including jewellery, furniture, textiles, household silver and other utensils and lighting, as well as the fine arts". It is seen as a transition from historical styles of the 19th century to Modernism.
Nr. 2015-45
Titel: Star Wars Collage
Teile: 1500
Hersteller: Educa
Jahr: --
Artikel-Nr. 16312
Barcode: 8 412668 163126
Größe: 85 x 60cm
Gelegt: 07.-08.06.2015
And the battle has been won by ...me! This was quite a hard puzzle, but the end result is very rewarding. Although I personally prefer paintings like the Botticelli ones that have less tiny figures, it is a stunning puzzle.
The fit of the puzzle is amazing, when a piece really fell into its place, there was no doubt about it, except for the repeating pattern in the sky, where I had to change the pieces a few times.
Educa 12736
1000 pieces, used and complete
48 x 68 cm
Beers of the World feature in this Educa puzzle from no earlier than 2016. In immaculate condition, and probably only assembled once, it was complete. One of Mike's choices, although we did it together.
2020 piece count: 59251
Puzzle 62
Educa puzzle, finished in early 2008. This is one of two Velazquez paintings made into a 10,000 piece puzzle by the Spanish puzzle manufacturer (the other, 'The Weavers,' can also be found in this set).
Another giant puzzle from Educa. Completed in 2009, this puzzle looks great in the photo but close up the printing quality is kind of fuzzy. Not sure if it's Educa's fault or the original fresco is the same way - I've never been to the Vatican to see the original ... Italian Renaissance painter Rafael Sanzio (1483-1520).