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One iconic artwork from every country in Europe - a thread 🧵

1. Germany: "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" - Caspar David Friedrich (1818) 🇩🇪 Image
2. Albania: "Motra Tone" - Kolë Idromeno (1883) 🇦🇱 Image
3. Andorra: The apse fresco at the church of Sant Miquel d'Engolasters (c.1160) 🇦🇩 Image
4. Austria: "The Kiss" - Gustav Klimt (1907-1908) 🇦🇹 Image
5. Belarus: "And the Saved World Remembers" -
Mai Dantsig (1985) 🇧🇾 Image
6. Belgium: "The Triumph of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange" - Jacob Jordaens (1652) 🇧🇪 Image
7. Bosnia and Herzegovina: "Mountain Landscape" - Karlo Mijić (1924) 🇧🇦 Image
8. Bulgaria: "Rachenitsa Dance" - Ivan Mrkvička (1894) 🇧🇬 Image
9. Croatia: "Roman woman playing a mandolin" - Vjekoslav Karas (c.1847) 🇭🇷 Image
10. Cyprus: "Sleeping Adonis" - Andreas Charalambides (20th century) 🇨🇾 Image
11. Czech Republic: "The Absinthe Drinker" - Viktor Oliva (1901) 🇨🇿 Image
12. Denmark: "Hip, Hip, Hurrah!" - Peder Severin Krøyer (1888) 🇩🇰 Image
13. Estonia: "Faithful Guardian" - Johann Köler (1878) 🇪🇪 Image
14. Finland: "Under the Yoke (Burning the Brushwood)" - Eero Järnefelt (1893) 🇫🇮 Image
15. France: "Liberty Leading the People" - Eugène Delacroix (1830) 🇫🇷 Image
16: Greece: The Antikythera Ephebe (c.340 - 330 BC) 🇬🇷 Image
17. Hungary: "Old Fisherman" - Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka (1902) 🇭🇺 Image
18. Iceland: "Thingvellir" - Þórarinn Benedikt Þorláksson (1900) 🇮🇸 Image
19. Ireland: "Cupid and Psyche in the nuptial bower" - Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1793) 🇮🇪 Image
20. Italy: "The Birth of Venus" - Sandro Botticelli (c.1484–1486) 🇮🇹 Image
21. Latvia: "After Church" - Janis Rozentāls (1894) 🇱🇻 Image
22. Lithuania: "Fairy Tale of the Kings" - Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1909) 🇱🇹 Image
23. Luxembourg: "Prise de la Porte d'Eich" - Jean-Baptiste Fresez (c.1839) 🇱🇺 Image
24. Malta: "Death of Dragut' - Giuseppe Calì (1867) 🇲🇹 Image
25. Moldova: "The Girls From Ciadar Lunga" - Mihai Grecu (1960) 🇲🇩 Image
26. Monaco: "Hercules fighting Acheloos transformed into a snake" - François Joseph Bosio (1824) 🇲🇨 Image
27. Montenegro: "Our Lady of Philermos" (11th / 12th century) 🇲🇪 Image
28. Netherlands: "Wheat Field with Cypresses" - Van Gogh (1889) 🇳🇱 Image
29. North Macedonia: "Moses Parting the Red Sea" from the Paris Psalter (10th century) 🇲🇰 Image
30. Norway: "The Scream" - Edvard Munch (1893) 🇳🇴 Image
31. Poland: "Rejtan" - Jan Matejko (1866) 🇵🇱 Image
32. Portugal: "Jesus in the House of Marta" - Vasco Fernandes (c.1535) 🇵🇹 Image
33. Romania: "Oxcart" - Nicolae Grigorescu (1899) 🇷🇴 Image
34. Russia: "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan" - Ilya Repin (1885) 🇷🇺 Image
35. Serbia: "The Wounded Montenegrin" - Paja Jovanović (c.1882) 🇷🇸 Image
36. Slovakia: "Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the heart V - War" - Albin Brunovsky (1990) 🇸🇰 Image
37. Slovenia: "Spring" - Ivan Grohar (1903) 🇸🇮 Image
38. Spain: "Las Meninas" - Diego Velázquez (1656) 🇪🇸 Image
39. Sweden: "Nordic Summer Evening" - Richard Bergh (1900) 🇸🇪 Image
40. Switzerland: "The Nightmare" - Henry Fuseli (1781) 🇨🇭 Image
41. Ukraine: "Kateryna Olia" - Taras Shevchenko (1842) 🇺🇦 Image
42. United Kingdom: "The Hay Wain" - John Constable (1821) 🇬🇧 Image
43. Vatican City: "The Last Judgment" - Michelangelo 🇻🇦 Image

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