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Apr 13, 2017
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An ingenious mapmaker has posted a map of Europe, featuring well known paintings as the graphic for each territory.
It's really a thing of beauty and was posted to the r/mapporn subreddit on 13 April 2017, by user u/halfabluesky.
The poster also listed the 44 works featured, which we've linked to below if you want to find out more:
Albania:
Holy Mary holding Baby Jesus in her right arm, Onufri, 16th Century.
Andorra:
Decoration of the apse and the triumphal arch. From the church of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters, Master of Santa Coloma d'Andorra, around 1160.
Austria:
The Kiss, Gustav Klimt, 1908.
Belarus:
The Fiddler, Marc Chaggall, 1913.
Belgium:
The Son of Man, René Magritte, 1964.
Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Mountain landscape, Karlo Mijić, 1924.
Bulgaria:
Rachenitsa Dance, Ivan Mrkvička, 1894.
Croatia:
Roman Woman Playing A Lute, Vjekoslav Karas, 1845-47.
Cyprus:
Work by Stelois Votsis - hard to identify, but Stelios Votsis lived from 1929 to 2012 and you can view a few of his works here.
Czech Republic:
The Absinthe Drinker, Viktor Oliva, 1901.
Denmark:
The Little Mermaid, Edvard Eriksen, 1913.
Estonia:
Half Nude in Striped Skirt, Adamson-Eric, unknown.
Finland:
The Wounded Angel, Hugo Simerg, 1903.
France:
Impression, Sunrise, Claude Monet, 1872.
Germany:
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, Caspar David Friedrich, 1818.
Greece:
Venus de Milo, Alexandros of Antioch, 130-100 BC.
Hungary:
The Old Fisherman, Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka, 1902.
Iceland:
Pingvellir, Pórarinn B. Porláksson Pingvellir, 1900.
Ireland:
Three Studies of Lucian Freud, Francis Bacon, 1969.
Italy:
Mona Lisa, Leonardo Da Vinci, 1503-06, perhaps till 1517.
Latvia:
After Church, Janis Rozentals, 1894.
Lithuania:
Tale of the Kings, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, 1909.
Luxembourg:
Stretch of the Moselle at Greiveldange with Stadtbredimus, Nico Klopp, 1930.
Macedonia (FYROM):
Scene from the Paris Psalter, 10th Century.
Moldova:
The Girls From Ciadar Lunga, Mihail Grecu, 1960.
Monaco:
Ranieri I, Unknown (He ruled from 1267-1314).
Malta:
Our Lady of Philermos.
Netherlands:
The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, 1656.
Norway:
The Scream, Edvard Munch, 1893.
Poland:
Rejtan, or the Fall of Poland, Jan Matjko, 1866.
Portugal:
Le Fado, José Malhoa, 1910.
Romania:
Car Cu Boi, Nicolae Grigorescu, 1899.
Russia:
Golden Autumn, Isaac Levitan, 1895.
Serbia:
The Wounded Montenegrin, Paja Jovanović, 1882.
Slovakia:
Work by Albin Brunovsky, lived from 1935-1997.
Slovenia:
Pomlad (Spring), Ivan Grohar, 1903.
Spain:
Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937.
Sweden:
Breakfast Under the Big Birch Tree, Carl Larsson, 1895.
Switzerland:
The Walking Man, Alberto Giacometti, 1960.
Turkey:
The Tortoise Trainer, Osman Hamdi Bey, 1906-7
Ukraine:
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, Ilya Repin, 1880-1891.
United Kingdom:
The Fighting Temeraire, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1838
Vatican City:
Creation of Adam, Michelangelo, 1508-1512.
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