EuroGraphics The Garden of Earthly Delights by Heironymus Bosch (1000 Piece) Puzzle

To give to your mortal enemy. I'm rating this one 5 stars only because I want others to just glance at the rating without reading the reviews. Because if they do....this puzzle is brutal. Like almost not fun brutal.The puzzle pieces are almost all the exact same shape but due to Boschs tiny composition, it makes putting this thing together really challenging. Quality of the puzzle is good, no complaints about missing pieces or image crispness, its just that Bosch uses so many tiny figures and they are all muted in colors so it makes this puzzle exceptionally challenging to put together.If you are trying to troll your spouse who is doing more puzzles, only purchase this if you have a healthy relationship.

First time to do a Eurographic puzzle, and this was an absolute joy to build. Pieces were matte and silky to the touch, very sturdy, with varied shapes and striking detail. No frustrations or false fits. The artwork itself was rife with details, making the build easier than it looks.A word of warning though, not all Eurographics puzzles are cut this way -- some are random, and some have only one piece shape (standard H). It is evident by the varied reviews here of this particular puzzle. Hopefully there is a surefire way to be sure before you purchase.

will he better informed after gifted person opens it!

I got this puzzle for my mom as a bit of a gag. much to my surprise, she loved it! and I can understand why. each tiny piece contains almost an entire scene unto itself. you really begin to appreciate the quality and vision of the work when you're obsessing over each tiny, individual character or structure. the bizarre content encourages you to keep coming back, and once you get the rough parts done the rest of it comes together remarkably quickly.would recommend for anyone who enjoys fine art, or someone just looking for a change of pace from the standard landscape scenes.oh, and I had no issue with the print quality or the size/cut of the pieces. considering the variety of scenes, you're highly unlikely to get two pieces confused.

There is not a single boring piece in this puzzle. I recommend listening to a lecture on the symbolism of the delightfully grotesque characters while you're working on it. My teen and I spent many fun hours together on this. I do wish the colors were more true to the original.

The Garden of Earthly Delights is such a vivid busy picture that this puzzle is engaging. Each piece is almost like it's own beautiful and surreal scene of interweaving body parts, animals, and chaos. The quality was good enough that you can see the tiny details and feel rewarded when you use those little clues to fit the pieces together. That being said, the picture is a little cropped around the edges so the finished picture is missing a little of each side of the original painting. Also, this puzzle is smaller than I expected. I have a 1000 piece Frida Kahlo puzzle (Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Humingbird) by Eurographics Puzzles that is much larger. Since neither my Frida puzzle nor this one have clear dimensions I assumed they would be the same size and they are not. More importantly, the Frida puzzle had really interesting and tricky shaped pieces. Instead of a grid, you were often connecting pieces at strange angles and it was way more dynamic to solve. The Garden of Earthly Delights puzzle has pretty standard pieces that are more or less the same size and shape and that come together in clearly defined rows and columns. While a beautiful picture and a fun high quality puzzle, I was a little disappointed since I went in expecting more based on the other Eurographics puzzle I had done.

Great quality

Drove me crazy but I can say that it was a fun journey. Color and print quality is pretty good for that price. I glued it hang it on my wall.