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 “Andrea Palladio, Italian, 1518–1580” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:38 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.
I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio . . ., by Andrea Palladio

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio . . .

Andrea Palladio · 1570

Public domainThe Met
Prospetto Interno del Teatro Olimpico Nella Citta di Vincenza (View of the Stage of the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza), by Andrea Palladio, Italian, 1518–1580

Prospetto Interno del Teatro Olimpico Nella Citta di Vincenza (View of the Stage of the Teatro Olimpico at Vicenza)

Andrea Palladio, Italian, 1518–1580 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piazza San Marco, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Piazza San Marco

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · late 1720s

Public domainThe Met
Pilate Washing his Hands

Pilate Washing his Hands

Artist not stated in the record · 1585

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio, by Andrea Palladio

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio · 1570

Public domainThe Met
Triumph of Death with three fates in an architectural frame above a wheel of fortune flanked by skeletons; a skull and an hour glass at top and with wheel intended to spin at center

Triumph of Death with three fates in an architectural frame above a wheel of fortune flanked by skeletons; a skull and an hour glass at top and with wheel intended to spin at center

Artist not stated in the record · 1588

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Andrea Palladio in half-length within an oval frame; a compass, carpenter's square, and plumb line rest on the plinth below the oval, from an unidentified edition of "Architecture de Palladio", revised by Giacomo Leoni and translated by Nicholas du Bois, by Bernard Picart

Portrait of Andrea Palladio in half-length within an oval frame; a compass, carpenter's square, and plumb line rest on the plinth below the oval, from an unidentified edition of "Architecture de Palladio", revised by Giacomo Leoni and translated by Nicholas du Bois

Bernard Picart · 1716

Public domainThe Met
Villa Barbaro, from I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio (Book 2, page 51), by Andrea Palladio

Villa Barbaro, from I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio (Book 2, page 51)

Andrea Palladio · 1570

Public domainThe Met
I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne'quale dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini, by Andrea Palladio

I quattro libri dell'architettura di Andrea Palladio. Ne'quale dopo un breue trattato de' cinque ordini

Andrea Palladio · 1581

Public domainThe Met
Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer, by Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti)

Doge Alvise Mocenigo (1507–1577) Presented to the Redeemer

Jacopo Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) · probably 1577

Public domainThe Met
The First Book of Architecture, by Andrea Palladio

The First Book of Architecture

Andrea Palladio · 1721

Public domainThe Met
The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura), by Andrea Palladio

The Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura)

Andrea Palladio · 1715 [1716–20]

Public domainThe Met
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. 21 matched · 21 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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.3 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 18:38 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.