{"id":24643,"date":"2025-08-10T18:17:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T23:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24643"},"modified":"2025-09-25T07:33:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:33:55","slug":"sistine-chapel-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24643","title":{"rendered":"Sistine Chapel Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24645\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24645\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044-350x122.jpg\" alt=\"Sistine Chapel Puzzle\" width=\"350\" height=\"122\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-24645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044-350x122.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044-1024x357.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044-768x268.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044-1536x536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_20250810_026044.jpg 1799w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sistine Chapel Puzzle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We did another hard puzzle, this time of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. The repeating patterns were both a blessing and curse for this one. My plan of attack was to pick one repeated feature and find all the pieces that included part of that feature. Then I worked on finding which version of that feature they all went to. One issue was that there isn&#8217;t really a &#x2018;right way up&#x2019; for this puzzle. When you&#8217;re in the chapel, you&#8217;d be looking straight up to see this. I still have vivid memories of being there in 1971, although I think The Last Judgment on the west end of the chapel, behind the alter, is even more impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did another hard puzzle, this time of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. The repeating patterns were both a blessing and curse for this one. My plan of attack was to pick one repeated feature and find all the pieces that included part of that feature. Then I worked on finding &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=24643\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[346,2734,3762,2202,3761,3763],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24643"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24643"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24653,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24643\/revisions\/24653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}