The Battle of Lent and Carnival - Peiter Bruegel the Elder

WOW!!!

I just got back from Seattle and spent some quality time doing little to nothing today and enjoyed fathers day! After making dinner, we settled into the most amazing puzzle we have had the pleasure to touch!

This laser cut puzzle from Liberty Puzzles is simply amazing! The pieces feel luxurious to assemble, the  shapes are fascinating and whimsical and the difficulty level is very high! M and I started on it tonight, here are some pics from the first few hours.

This painting was looted by the Nazis from the National Museum in Krakow, shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939. It has been missing since. Bruegel painted several very similar versions of this painting, and the version you see here hangs in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The scene depicts the annual three-day festival of Carnival, which precedes Lent. In this typical re-enactment, party-goers and revelers celebrate amidst beggars and cripples on the left side, and pious church goers display mercy and charity on the right. In the center, a fat man representing carnival rides a giant beer barrel to joust with the skinny Lent, dressed in mourning and sitting on an uncomfortable prayer stool.

I was very excited to find a piece that fits within a piece! This can only be done with a laser cutter and I wondered if they would attempt and it and sure enough, they did!

Amazing what you can do with lasers

You can stand wooden puzzle pieces up! M is working hard in the background

Here are all of the object pieces

Here's M and I in this puzzle :-)

Here is an example of one of the things that makes these puzzles difficult. You cannot just assemble the edge... look closely at the cuts

All of the corners are also split making it very hard to find them!