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Puzzle Paintings

Gardens were a popular subject in the art of the Islamic world. Unscramble these paintings of gardens!

Images from the Learn > Painted Gardens module have been gathered here and turned into puzzles.


INSTRUCTIONS Close this screen, and tap on a painting to get a puzzle to solve. After loading a puzzle, drag the squares into the right spot. For a hint you can tap on the info icon. When all the squares are in the right place, you will be notified. Good luck!

TIME NEEDED

8 puzzles
1 puzzle ~ 4 min.
All puzzles ~ 32 min.

CREDITS
  • Bowen, Blake. Sortable Grid, 2017. https://codepen.io/osublake/details/NrRJwm.
  • Nidha Mal ? “Prince and Ladies in a Garden.” Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 27 x 18.7 cm. Lucknow, India, mid-18th C. MET 2001.302. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2001.
  • Photograph Studio, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Digital Image of Prince and Ladies in a Garden. 2001. Digital photograph. The MET Website. http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/454049.
  • Unknown. Humay and Humayun Meeting in a Garden. Herat, Afghanistan. c 1425. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper, 29 x 17.5 cm. Inv. 3727. Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
  • East-West Foundation. Photograph of Humay and Humayun Meeting in a Garden. c 2002. Photograph. 168-169; Fig. 82. In Sims, Peerless Images. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/977386150.
  • Unknown Bukharan artist, and Nar Singh. Seven Couples in a Garden, from a Copy of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nava’i (d. 1501). Bukhara, Uzbekistan,  ; India, 1605 1510. Opaque watercolour on gold sprinkled paper, 23.5 x 15.1-15.3 cm. RCIN 1005032, folio 6r. London, Royal Collection Trust.
  • Royal Collection Trust Staff. Digital Image of Seven Couples in a Garden, from a Copy of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nava’i. London 2016. Digital Image. Royal Collection Trust Website. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/1005032/khamsa-quintet-of-navai.
  • Bishndas, and Nanha. Babur Supervising the Laying out of a Garden near Kabul, from a Copy of the Baburnama. India, c 1590. Opaque watercolour on paper, 26.5 x 16.8 cm (page). IM.276-1913. London, Victoria and Albert Museum.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Staff. Digital Image of Babur Supervising the Laying out of a Garden near Kabul, from a Copy of the Baburnama. 2016. Digital image. Victoria and Albert Museum Website. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17687/painting-bishndas/.
  • Faizullah ? A Palace Complex with Harem Gardens. Faizabad or Lucknow, c 1765. Opaque watercolour on paper, 45.5 × 31.8 cm. Inv. no. 46/1980. Copenhagen, David Collection.
  • David Collection Staff. Digital Image of A Palace Complex with Harem Gardens. n.d. Digital. The Collections/Islamic Art/Islamic Dynasties/India, 1707-c.1850/Works of Art. David Collection Website. https://www.davidmus.dk/files/3/5/345/20.3-46-1980-Miniature-Paladshaver.jpg.
  • Unknown. Folio from the Silsilat Al-Dhahab (Chain of Gold) in the Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) by Jami (d. 1492): A Father Advises His Son about Love. Mashhad ?, Iran, -65 1556. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper, H x W: 34.2 x 23.2 cm (13 7/16 x 9 1/8 in). F1946.12, folio 52a (recto). Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment).
  • Freer Gallery of Art Staff. Digital Image of Folio from the Silsilat Al-Dhahab (Chain of Gold) in the Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) by Jami (d. 1492): A Father Advises His Son about Love. n.d. Digital. Freer Gallery of Art website. http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService/full/id/FS-7235_49.
  • Nakkas Osman ? Third Court of the Topkapi Palace Showing Audience Hall (Arz Divanhanesi), Folio from Illustrated Copy of Hunername of Lokman (d. 1595). Volume I. Istanbul, -85 1584. Opaque watercolour on paper. 350T/ 1584/ ITKSha1523/ folio 231b. Topkapi Sarayi Hazine (Istanbul).
  • tarihvemedeniyet.org. Digital Image of Third Court of the Topkapi Palace Showing Audience Hall (Arz Divanhanesi), from Published Photograph in Lokman et al., Hunername (1969). n.d. Digital. P. 40. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/hunername.
  • Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Design Drawing of the Aga Khan Garden. Charlottesville, VA, c. 2017. Charlottesville, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects Collection

CITE THIS

Keshani, Hussein (Researcher, Coder). “Game: Puzzle Paintings.” Evolving the Botanic Garden Project, July 31, 2019. https://akg.ok.ubc.ca/pa1.html.

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What is This?

Nidha Mal ? “Prince and Ladies in a Garden.” Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 27 x 18.7 cm. Lucknow, India, mid-18th C. MET 2001.302. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund, 2001.

Photograph Studio, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Digital Image of Prince and Ladies in a Garden. 2001. Digital photograph. The MET Website. http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/454049.

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What is This?

Unknown. Humay and Humayun Meeting in a Garden. Herat, Afghanistan. c 1425. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper, 29 x 17.5 cm. Inv. 3727. Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs.

East-West Foundation. Photograph of Humay and Humayun Meeting in a Garden. c 2002. Photograph. 168-169; Fig. 82. In Sims, Peerless Images. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/977386150.

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What is This?

Unknown Bukharan artist, and Nar Singh. Seven Couples in a Garden, from a Copy of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nava’i (d. 1501). Bukhara, Uzbekistan,  ; India, 1605 1510. Opaque watercolour on gold sprinkled paper, 23.5 x 15.1-15.3 cm. RCIN 1005032, folio 6r. London, Royal Collection Trust.

Royal Collection Trust Staff. Digital Image of Seven Couples in a Garden, from a Copy of a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nava’i. London 2016. Digital Image. Royal Collection Trust Website. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/search#/3/collection/1005032/khamsa-quintet-of-navai.

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What is This?

Bishndas, and Nanha. Babur Supervising the Laying out of a Garden near Kabul, from a Copy of the Baburnama. India, c 1590. Opaque watercolour on paper, 26.5 x 16.8 cm (page). IM.276-1913. London, Victoria and Albert Museum.

Victoria and Albert Museum Staff. Digital Image of Babur Supervising the Laying out of a Garden near Kabul, from a Copy of the Baburnama. 2016. Digital image. Victoria and Albert Museum Website. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O17687/painting-bishndas/.

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What is This?

Faizullah ? A Palace Complex with Harem Gardens. Faizabad or Lucknow, c 1765. Opaque watercolour on paper, 45.5 × 31.8 cm. Inv. no. 46/1980. Copenhagen, David Collection.

David Collection Staff. Digital Image of A Palace Complex with Harem Gardens. n.d. Digital. The Collections/Islamic Art/Islamic Dynasties/India, 1707-c.1850/Works of Art. David Collection Website. https://www.davidmus.dk/files/3/5/345/20.3-46-1980-Miniature-Paladshaver.jpg.

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What is This?

Unknown. Folio from the Silsilat Al-Dhahab (Chain of Gold) in the Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) by Jami (d. 1492): A Father Advises His Son about Love. Mashhad ?, Iran, -65 1556. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper, H x W: 34.2 x 23.2 cm (13 7/16 x 9 1/8 in). F1946.12, folio 52a (recto). Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment).

Freer Gallery of Art Staff. Digital Image of Folio from the Silsilat Al-Dhahab (Chain of Gold) in the Haft Awrang (Seven Thrones) by Jami (d. 1492): A Father Advises His Son about Love. n.d. Digital. Freer Gallery of Art website. http://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService/full/id/FS-7235_49.

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What is This?

Nakkas Osman ? Third Court of the Topkapi Palace Showing Audience Hall (Arz Divanhanesi), Folio from Illustrated Copy of Hunername of Lokman (d. 1595). Volume I. Istanbul, -85 1584. Opaque watercolour on paper. 350T/ 1584/ ITKSha1523/ folio 231b. Topkapi Sarayi Hazine (Istanbul).

tarihvemedeniyet.org. Digital Image of Third Court of the Topkapi Palace Showing Audience Hall (Arz Divanhanesi), from Published Photograph in Lokman et al., Hunername (1969). n.d. Digital. P. 40. archive.org. https://archive.org/details/hunername.

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What is This?

Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. Design Drawing of the Aga Khan Garden. Charlottesville, VA, c. 2017. Charlottesville, Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects Collection