{"id":3570,"date":"2024-07-08T23:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:48:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:48:27","slug":"mona-lisa-ronald-w-butler-puzzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2024\/07\/08\/mona-lisa-ronald-w-butler-puzzles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mona Lisa, Ronald W. Butler puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This puzzle (Leonardo da Vinci&#8217;s &#8220;Mona Lisa&#8221;, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butlerandhill.com\/collections\/ronald-w-butlers-traditional-wooden-jigsaws\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.butlerandhill.com\/collections\/ronald-w-butlers-traditional-wooden-jigsaws\">Ronald W. Butler Puzzles<\/a>), was courtesy of Hoefnagel. I ordinarily steer clear of the &#8220;old masters&#8221; because (a) the images are often too familiar to be interesting and (b) the colors often reproduce in a muted and muddy way. And that was true with this puzzle, as well as strip-cut pieces, and a lot of false fits. Altogether, a frustrating experience! It went fast enough, except for bogging down in a sea of similarly fitting black-ish pieces at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240708_163403783-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" data-id=\"3574\" src=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240708_163403783-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240708_163403783-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240708_163403783-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240708_163403783-150x113.jpg 150w, 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And that was true with this puzzle, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,612],"tags":[],"artists":[446],"puzzling":[200],"makers":[651],"features":[480,8],"subjects":[652,25],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-completed","category-wooden-lasercut","artists-leonardo-da-vinci","puzzling-hoefnagel-puzzle-club","makers-ronald-w-butler-puzzles","features-laser-cut","features-wooden","subjects-old-masters","subjects-public-domain-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/PXL_20240708_210144796-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4815,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/4815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"artists","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artists?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"puzzling","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/puzzling?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"makers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/makers?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"features","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/features?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subjects?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}