Jigsaw 8, Series 3

Another go at the jigsaw last seen here on 14th May, having taken something over five weeks to solve on this occasion. Perhaps jigsaw life really is wearing thin.

For variety, solved the easy bits in a different order but ended up with most of the velvet robe of the right hand figure and the lower black of the left hand figures, as last time.

During this time we came across a computer image of the painting at the 'Colour' exhibition at the National Gallery (see 20th June), possibly in connection with the green curtain, possibly on account of Holbein's use of exciting new green paints, of a quality not previously available. I shall check when we revisit the exhibition.

The picture is also included in the collection of the Google Cultural Institute (http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home?view=grid), where the zooming in capability is rather better than that offered by the owner, that is to say the National Gallery. A fine teaching or study aid, presumably the product of some fancy photographic work commissioned especially for the Cultural Institute. I wonder if one can organise things so that it displays a full size version on the computer screen on your wall? How close to the experience of the original would this come? Or has that been blocked on the grounds that that is tantamount to giving you the image, presumably not allowed.

From what I remember of Harald Küppers, it should be better than a printed copy. That is to say, a computer screen, being light emitting rather than light reflecting, should be far less sensitive to the vicissitudes of the ambient lighting.