Ultramarine

Good one!

Vermeer!! My favorite painter :) Song Association of the day: either "Mary Hamilton" or "Mattie Groves", both Childe Ballads that the maid might be singing as she does her work here. I like Joan Baez's versions of both.

You have today made me seek out a good print of Vermeer’s painting . So beautiful. Thank you . I’ve loved this picture for so long . I want to enjoy it NOW : I’m quite old and it’s been horrible ( as I am now a close neighbour of the US ) to be experiencing fascism at the end of my life as my parents did in Britain, a lifetime ago. I really need to fill my mind with beautiful thoughts, sights and words.

One of my newly adopted kitties has been leaping on my laptop, every time I open it up, for the past 2 weeks - so I've missed my relaxation time of tea mug in hand, Nodes open on the laptop, good music on the headphones to wake up. Well, today she found a new place....long enough for me to work this wonderful puzzle. I'm wasping happily for the rest of the day - and this was an absolutely beautiful puzzle to start my morning routine again!

This was also an Art Keeper image 5/14/26!

Incredible. 1000 puzzles. The sheer dedication needed to make 1000 of these high quality pictures is simply unfathomable. This one took me 15m 59s with an accuracy of 92.9%. Incredible work everyone, Im so glad I could be a part of this huge milestone. :)

Most thankful for the explanation of the pic's significance. Makes puzzle more enjoyable!

Thanks for the fun facts Ladybug!

Lovely puzzle, many thanks to all those who work on creating the puzzles, doing them really brightens my day!

Excellent 1000!!a big thank you to the puzzle creators for designing this puzzle! 💙

1000 puzzles! That went by fast (maybe not for the puzzle makers 😁)! The title, "Ultramarine," was about the color Vermeer was obsessed with, made by crushing Afghani lapis lazuli. Such was his lust for the stone that he went into deep debt by constantly using it, as it was equal to the value of gold. The irony, here, was that he used this most expensive pigment to paint the sleeves of a milkmaid, a common tablecloth, and added it subliminally to the white to brighten it. 👏👏 Very nice! 1000!

Lolololololololololololololol this is a very accurate portrayal of me pouring out milk and biscuit treats for my chinchilla bugger who just eats and eats and eats and eats. All just to keep him from eating the curtains or the couch or something. It’s a lot of work but I love him ❤️❤️

The Milkmaid--Johannes Vermeer