Recently while seeking the most superb works of art to decorate the walls of my enormous office, works of sufficient dignity to remain unobserved as they adorn my office walls, I casually decided to seek images of the Delphic Sybil by Michelangelo.
Let us take a moment to behold the majesty of Michelangelo's rendering of this female. The contortion of her body lends a feeling of dynamic tension, a feeling that she is a living figure who is just an instant from popping out of her niche into movement. It is an illusion of the type that a supreme master like Michelangelo to make a static painted figure appear alive.
In addition, Michelangelo's superb sense of color remains, to my eye, and to my tastes, the most elevated and dignified that could have possibly been chosen. One lays one's eyes on this figure, not to mention the other figures on the rest of the Capella Sistina and cannot help but feel better and more alive.
Moreover, I must confess that the manner in which Michelangelo captured the beauty of the female face, and her emotional intensity is just unbelievable.
And so it was while rummaging around for such works of minimum dignity that I stumbled coincidentally on some beautiful puzzles of this great work as well as several others.
Above is a Puzzle of the Delphic Sybille by Michelangelo manufactured by Piatnik. Seeing this puzzle as well as various other such works of art provided me with some inspiring thoughts. There are for example puzzles of the Mona Lisa, puzzles of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, among others. There are of course also reproductions, for example of the Kiss by Klimt , Various Reproductions as well as originals by Pollock, Picassos among many other artists.
These puzzles caught my attention because they seemed to me to be a way to provide a fun pastime for the children of my friends and family while simultaneously exposing these children to touchstones of genius. Additionally, whether they decide to glue them and preserve the completed puzzle as a work to be framed, or whether they decide to take them apart to put them together again at a later time, this is a far better past time than for example many of the phone and video games that so many people play.
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