![]() He made his career writing about both art and travel. ![]() Jacobs ultimately took plenty of that advice, though he also studied art history at the Courtauld Institute in London. At that time, the other boy had teased Jacobs about his passion for Velázquez’s masterpiece and suggested he should go get a girlfriend, get out into the sunlight and enjoy life. It was from a man he had known when they were boys at school. As if I was just a spectator watching a group of actors silently taking up their positions at the start of a play: the painter behind his easel, the child princess center stage…” With the puzzle put together, he recognized the signature of the sender. He assembled the familiar figures - “I knew the painting so well that I felt now almost extraneous to its reassembly. ![]() Even in pieces, he recognized it to be Velázquez’s Las Meninas. Near the end of his life, travel writer and art historian Michael Jacobs received a mysterious envelope in the mail - inside he found nothing but the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work. ![]()
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