Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Vatican Pietà
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · 1566

Hercules and the Nemean Lion
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori

Two winged putti riding parallel on dolphins above the water surface, an oval composition
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · ca. 1550–87

Cupid with Weapons of Mars
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · ca. 1547–62

Hercules at the cross-roads, he is seated at the right, to the left are female personifications of Virtue and Vice
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · 1547–87

Hercules and the Nemean Lion: Hercules grasps the shoulders and chest of the lion, which is viewed from the back, beside a rocky outcrop
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · ca. 1530–87

Lion Attacking a Horse, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · ca. 1540–80

Satyr's Head
Adamo (Ghisi) Scultori · 1566–80

Saints Lawrence, Sixtus, Peter, and Paul adoring the Coronation of the Virgin by Christ above
Anonymous · ca. 1576

Sinon Deceiving the Trojans
Giorgio Ghisi · mid-1540's

Sinon Deceiving the Trojans
Giorgio Ghisi · mid-1540's

The Fall of Troy and Escape of Aeneas
Giorgio Ghisi · mid-1540's
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 18 matched · 18 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 08:43 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.