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It's time that we started a new classical collection of puzzles and our first is based on the painting Dream of Arcadia by classical painter Thomas Cole*. The theme of Dream of Arcadia is man’s relationship to unspoiled nature. Cole felt that the American wilderness was beginning to disappear as a result of the industrialization of the nation. In this painting, Cole harks back to the land of Arcadia, a rustic, secluded area of ancient Greece. The people who lived in Arcadia led simple, happy lives, in harmony with nature. Cole creates an idyllic image of an unblemished landscape - one where people frolic in the trees, sheep roam the hillside, and children play in the gentle river. Cole was greatly inspired by the work of Claude Lorrain, a French landscape artist who painted roughly 200 years before him. “Claude, to me, is the greatest of all landscape painters,” said Cole. Cole used many of the same artistic devices that Claude used in his paintings, such as the luminous distance, the large trees in the foreground that frame the painting, and elements of architecture in the middle ground. Claude often emphasized the effects of light in his paintings - something Cole focused on as well in Dream of Arcadia.


Contains one new puzzle box for Masters of Puzzle playable in variations of 250, 500, 750, and 1000 puzzle tiles. The UHD image captures the original painting in great detail which in turn allows for very detailed and diverse puzzle tiles. Typical for this type of puzzle, you should expect a good challenge in assembling the various wonders of nature created in oil paint.


* Note: The painting used in this DLC is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or less.