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Famous artwork in Europe (i.redd.it)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • 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: Thingvellir;
  • Ireland: Three Studies of Lucian Freud;
  • Italy: Mona Lisa;
  • Latvia: After Church;
  • Liechtenstein;
  • 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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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm disappointed Spain isn't the jesus portrait restoration gone wrong. That shit is hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm honestly suprised Guernica is the most famous. I just asked all of my friends (all Spanish) and got a good mix of Goya, Velázquez and El Greco. Maybe Picasso is known more outside of Spain than it is to Spaniards?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Small detail : Icelandic þ is pronounced θ like in think, it's common to write Þingvellir as Thingvellir, writing it as Pingvellir makes no sense :p

It's kind of like using Cyrillic И as a stylised N when it's pronounced completely different.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Edited!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

It's not like artwork is a folk artform OP, where are the artists names!?

[–] NigelFrobisher 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I still can’t bring myself to forgive Freidrich for being unable to go anywhere in nature without some twat standing in a yoga pose or sitting in a lotus position on every rock for a photo, as far as the eye can see.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Here you go.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Hünengrab unter den Eichen oder so

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You know Scotland has its own artists, pretty renowned, so does Wales. Turner even painted some Scottish landscapes of it had to be Turner... The monarch of the Glen or The skating reverend, maybe The last of the Clan... could've picked anything, The Wasail by Charles Rene MacIntosh...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

As a Swede, yeah got that piece from a magazine ages ago, got it om the wall of the shithouse at our summer cottage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Really Liechtenstein? Nothing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

San Marino isn't even listed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

What are the exact criteria? Famous to the local people or famous to the global audience?