OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “An altar dedicated to Apollo” — 40 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 12:19 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

An altar dedicated to Apollo

An altar dedicated to Apollo

Artist not stated in the record · 1815

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Stage Design: Curtain, The Workshop of Apollo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1800–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Themistocles, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Themistocles

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Roman Altar Dedicated to Mars and Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Olympus, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Olympus

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards, by Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801

Ornament Design, Altar Dedicated to Mars between Roman Standards

Michel Angelo Pergolesi, Italian, active ca. 1760–1801 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

Design for an Altar

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1749-1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?], by Unknown, Italian

Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]

Unknown, Italian · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Genius of the Painter, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of the Painter

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1645–47

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar to Apollo from the Villa di Cicerone, after a print by Piranesi, by Donato Vaselli, Italian

Altar to Apollo from the Villa di Cicerone, after a print by Piranesi

Donato Vaselli, Italian · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Genius of Castiglione, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1648

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 952442 matched · 40 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 12:19 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.