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## About This Content
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.

Masters of Puzzle – Dream of Arcadia by Thomas Cole