A map of Europe by each nation’s most famous artwork

An ingenious mapmaker halfabluesky has posted this map of Europe on Reddit, featuring well known paintings as the graphic for each European nation.

Because some of the artworks can be difficult to visualize on the map, the creator listed them. See below:

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.