A citation to Wikipedia's own article on Cranach's Law and Gospel paintings, read directly and cross checked against Smarthistory's dedicated art historical essay on the same works. Its strength is agreement between an encyclopedia synthesis and a scholarly teaching essay on the paintings' dating, versions, dimensions, museum locations and Lutheran didactic purpose. Its limit is that neither is the primary catalogue raisonne of Cranach's workshop output.
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Citation
AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Gospel_(Cranach)
Source Typereference
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Wikipedia's own article, cited for consolidated art-historical facts that are independently checkable against the painting's own documented record; that checkable factual core places it above the tier three floor a bare Wikipedia citation otherwise carries here, though it remains a tertiary encyclopedia entry rather than a dedicated academic study, hence the middle tier. Claims Backed By This Source (32 claims)
This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 24 well-attested. As cited relationships: 5 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sacred Art & Iconography, 17 claims: 11 well-attested, 5 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
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