Map: halfabluesky

Mapped: Europe's Most Iconic Artworks

Maps + Infographics
by Morgane Croissant Apr 25, 2017

AT MATADOR Network, we always encourage other travelers to visit museums (even the weirdest ones) and check out street art when they are abroad because we know that art is a window into a country’s culture.

This map of famous European artworks created by Reddit user halfabluesky is not going to please everyone (the choice for The Netherlands is already controversial in the comment section), but it is a great way for all of us to learn more about artists and artworks we would otherwise have never heard about — I personally did not know about anything about Icelandic art…now I do!

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
  • Andorra: Apse fresco of Sant Miquel d’Engolasters church
  • Austria: The Kiss
  • Belarus: The Fiddler
  • Belgium: The Son of Man
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Mountain landscape
  • Bulgaria: Rachenitsa
  • Croatia: Roman Woman Playing A Lute
  • Cyprus: Work by Stelois Votsis
  • Czech Republic: The Absinthe Drinker
  • Denmark: The Little Mermaid
  • Estonia: Half Nude in Striped Skirt
  • Finland: The Wounded Angel
  • France: Impression, Sunrise
  • Germany: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
  • Greece: Venus de Milo
  • Hungary: The Old Fisherman
  • Iceland: Pingvellir
  • Ireland: Three Studies of Lucian Freud
  • Italy: Mona Lisa
  • Latvia: After Church
  • Lithuania: Tale of the Kings
  • Luxembourg: Stretch of the Moselle at Greiveldange with Stadtbredimus
  • Macedonia (FYROM): Scene from the Paris Psalter
  • Moldova: The Girl From Ciadar Lunga
  • Monaco: Raniero I
  • Montenegro: Our Lady of Philermos
  • Netherlands: The Girl with Pearl Earrings
  • Norway: The Scream
  • Poland: Rejtan
  • Portugal: Fado
  • Romania: Car Cu Boi
  • Russia: Golden Autumn
  • Serbia: The Wounded Montenegrin
  • Slovakia: Work by Albin Brunovsky
  • Slovenia: Pomlad (Spring)
  • Spain: Guernica
  • Sweden: Breakfast Under the Big Birch Tree
  • Switzerland: The Walking Man
  • Turkey: The Tortoise Trainer
  • Ukraine: Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
  • United Kingdom (UK): The Fighting Temeraire
  • Vatican City: Creation of Adam

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