Arts and Music Atlas
Claims this atlas currently marks as unsettled or as tested and found false. A debated fact is one scholars hold competing positions on; a debunked one has been checked against the record and found not to hold. Both are kept in view rather than quietly smoothed over, with the reasoning that put each one where it stands.
75 statements marked Debated.
Romanticism, End Year1910
Romanticism, Movements
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1910
1910 is a conventional closing date associated with the late Romantic and early modernist transition in composers such as Mahler and Debussy; there is no agreed single end point, and late Romantic style persisted in some composers well into the twentieth century.
Source The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Stanley Sadie, editor (successive editions)
Sir Thomas More and Family, LocationOriginal destroyed by fire in 1752 at Kroměříž Castle; best copy at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire
Sir Thomas More and Family, Works
Standing
Concerns Location
Currently States Original destroyed by fire in 1752 at Kroměříž Castle; best copy at Nostell Priory, Yorkshire
Original destroyed in 1752; copies survive at Nostell Priory, the National Portrait Gallery and the V&A.
Source Sir Thomas More and Family (Wikipedia)
Surrealism, End Year1966
Surrealism, Movements
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1966
Andre Breton, the movement's founder and chief theorist, died in 1966, and the formal Surrealist group dissolved in 1969. Some historians treat the movement as continuing informally well beyond either date, so no single end year is fully settled.
Source Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
Swan Lake, Year Created1875
Swan Lake, Works
Standing
Concerns Year Created
Currently States 1875
Wikipedia states it was composed across 1875-76; not a single exact year.
Source Wikipedia
Symbolism, End Year1910
Symbolism, Movements
Standing
Concerns End Year
Currently States 1910
TheArtStory dates Symbolism 1880 to 1910, describing it as a transition from Romanticism to modernism rather than a movement with a sharp closing event; 1910 is the source's own closing marker.
Source TheArtStory
The Calling of Saint Matthew, Year Created1599
The Calling of Saint Matthew, Works
Standing
Concerns Year Created
Currently States 1599
Wikipedia dates the painting only to 1599-1600; not a single exact year.
Source Wikipedia
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), Year Created1718
The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), Works
Standing
Concerns Year Created
Currently States 1718
Wikipedia states the concerti were composed around 1718-1723; not a single exact year.
Source Wikipedia
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Year Created1490
The Garden of Earthly Delights, Works
Standing
Concerns Year Created
Currently States 1490
Wikipedia dates it only to between 1490 and 1510; not an exact year.
Source Wikipedia
The Kiss (Klimt), Year Created1907
The Kiss (Klimt), Works
Standing
Concerns Year Created
Currently States 1907
Wikipedia states it was painted in 1907 and 1908; not a single exact year.
Source Wikipedia
The Lady and the Unicorn, Commissioned ByProbably Antoine II Le Viste
The Lady and the Unicorn, Works
Standing
Concerns Commissioned By
Currently States Probably Antoine II Le Viste
Heraldic evidence is debated; the article calls this a recently favored hypothesis, not a settled attribution.
Source The Lady and the Unicorn (Wikipedia)
The School of Athens, Year Created1509
The School of Athens, Works
Standing
Concerns Year Created
Currently States 1509
Wikipedia dates it only to between 1509 and 1511; not an exact year.
Source Wikipedia
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, Commissioned ByLouis XII of France
William Shakespeare, Birth Year1564
William Shakespeare, Artists
Standing
Concerns Birth Year
Currently States 1564
Only his baptism (26 April 1564) is directly documented; 23 April is the traditional inferred birth date, not a recorded one.
Source William Shakespeare (Britannica)
William Shakespeare, Birth Date1564-04-23
William Shakespeare, Artists
Standing
Concerns Birth Date
Currently States 1564-04-23
Shakespeare's actual birth date was not recorded; his baptism is dated 26 April 1564, and 23 April is traditionally observed as his birthday.
Source Wikipedia
Winchester Bible, Commissioned ByProbably Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
Winchester Bible, Works
Standing
Concerns Commissioned By
Currently States Probably Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
Wikipedia's Origin subsection hedges with the word probably; not stated as certain.
Source Winchester Bible (Wikipedia)