puzzle 053 Mosque

Jigsaw puzzle #53 -  A Mosque

Alberto Pasini, 1872

Альберто Пазини. Мечеть.

570 pieces
38*50cm

I created this puzzle based on the fairy tales and legends of the Muslim East. In the details of the puzzle you will find characters from 1001 Nights, old ballads and legends. Alibaba, Aladdin, Scheherazada, Khoja Nasreddin and others ... Beauties and robbers, knights and crooks, musicians and scientists, rulers and beggars - everything for which the East is glorious!

Я создал этот пазл по мотивам сказок и легенд мусульманского востока. В деталях пазла вы найдете персонажей 1001 ночи, старинных баллад и сказаний. Алибаба, Алладин, Шахерезада, Ходжа Насреддин и другие... Красавицы и разбойники, рыцари и жулики, музыканты и ученые, владыки и нищие - всё, чем славен Восток!

Pasini here depicts the Yeni Valide Mosque at Eminonu, Istanbul, an Ottoman structure completed in the early eighteenth century. Four women of the Imperial Household enter the mosque by a gateway that Pasini appropriated from another, much later, monument. It was painted two decades after Pasini befriended the artist Théodore Chassériau after arriving in Paris in 1851. When Chassériau was unable to accompany a diplomatic mission to Persia in 1855, Pasini went instead; it was the first of his numerous visits to the East.

I have shown several steps in creating this puzzle below:

Ataman of robbers

 Reverse reverse side of the puzzle

Sleeping Guardian