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Named gaps in the record: a fact this atlas could not confirm, an attribution still disputed among scholars, or a dating that remains uncertain, recorded openly rather than guessed at or left silent. Where this grouping comes from: an open question is attached to the entity it concerns and named for the specific uncertainty. What it deliberately excludes: an ordinary source disagreement over an otherwise settled fact, which belongs on the entity as a dissent rather than here as an open question.

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Did true fresco painting originate independently in Minoan Crete and in ancient Rome, or was the wet-plaster technique transmitted between them?

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Does Jazz, as a living genre still actively performed and evolving, have any defensible end year, or does core-key end-year not apply to it at all?

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Does Josef Matthias Hauer's 1919 twelve-tone method predate and diminish Arnold Schoenberg's credited invention of the technique?

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Does Organic Architecture, an ongoing design philosophy with contemporary examples still being built, have any defensible end year, or does core-key end-year not apply to it at all?

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Does Pop Art have a settled end date, or did it fade gradually into later movements with no agreed close?

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Does Realism, as an art-historical movement, have a settled end year, or did it dissolve gradually into Naturalism and then Impressionism with no fixed date?

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Does the Symbolism art movement have a settled end date, or did it decline gradually with no fixed close?

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Has postmodern architecture reached a settled end date, or does it remain an open-ended, still-practiced idiom with no agreed close?

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Is Girl with a Red Hat genuinely a work by Johannes Vermeer, or a later imitation on a recycled wood panel unusual for his practice?

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Should Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner's internationally exhibited sculpture, made after their 1922 emigration from Soviet Russia, still count as Constructivism, or does the movement's own 1920 split already separate it into a related but distinct tendency?

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Vocabulary gap: source-type on source

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What is the precise dating and cultural purpose of the earliest Upper Paleolithic cave paintings, such as those at Altamira, Chauvet and Lascaux?

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When did Java's sophisticated batik tradition actually develop?

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Where, and by whom, were cut glass and stone tesserae first produced in mosaic making, in the Hellenistic Greek world or on Roman soil?

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