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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. 18 shown for “Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger” — 64 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:05 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.
Wall fountain, by Simone Mosca

Wall fountain

Simone Mosca · 1527–34

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument for a Medici Cardinal, by Francesco da Sangallo, Italian, 1494 - 1576

Design for a Sepulchral Monument for a Medici Cardinal

Francesco da Sangallo, Italian, 1494 - 1576 · ca. 1560–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Freestanding Tomb Seen in Elevation and Plan, by Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger

Design for a Freestanding Tomb Seen in Elevation and Plan

Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger · 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
Statement from Captain Joaquin Antonio da Corta of the Brazilian ship Convenção, by Unidentified

Statement from Captain Joaquin Antonio da Corta of the Brazilian ship Convenção

Unidentified · 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan of St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger

Plan of St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger · 1549

Public domainThe Met
Statement from Captain Joaquin Antonio da Corta of the Brazilian ship Convenção, by Unidentified

Statement from Captain Joaquin Antonio da Corta of the Brazilian ship Convenção

Unidentified · June 27, 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger

St. Peter's, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Antonio da Sangallo, the Younger · 1547

Public domainThe Met
Certificate for Brazilian ship carrying seven enslaved persons, by Unidentified

Certificate for Brazilian ship carrying seven enslaved persons

Unidentified · September 12, 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recto: Front Elevation of a Roman Temple in Ruins (inspired by Giuliano da Sangallo); Verso: Elevation of the Nave of a Roman Basilica in Ruins (? the Basilica Giulia, inspired by Giuliano da Sangallo)., by Sangallo family

Recto: Front Elevation of a Roman Temple in Ruins (inspired by Giuliano da Sangallo); Verso: Elevation of the Nave of a Roman Basilica in Ruins (? the Basilica Giulia, inspired by Giuliano da Sangallo).

Sangallo family · 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, by Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795

Title Page

Jean-Louis Prieur the Younger, French, 1759 – 1795 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vitruvius iterum et Frontinus à Iocundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licvit, by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

Vitruvius iterum et Frontinus à Iocundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licvit

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1513

Public domainThe Met
Dryopteris aemula Kuntze

Dryopteris aemula Kuntze

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1837

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recto: "Libro Primo, Chapo Quarto..." (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 4); Verso: The Fortification of City Walls (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 5)., by Sangallo family

Recto: "Libro Primo, Chapo Quarto..." (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 4); Verso: The Fortification of City Walls (Vitruvius, Book 1, Chapter 5).

Sangallo family · 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Corbel, by Giuliano da Sangallo

Corbel

Giuliano da Sangallo · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
The Port City of Alexandria (? Allusion to Dinocrates's Building of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Book 2, introduction, no. 1) (recto); Fragmentary Writing ("Libro Primo...") (verso), by Sangallo family

The Port City of Alexandria (? Allusion to Dinocrates's Building of Alexandria, Vitruvius, Book 2, introduction, no. 1) (recto); Fragmentary Writing ("Libro Primo...") (verso)

Sangallo family · 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 5)., by Sangallo family

Recto: Temple Types: in Antis and Prostyle (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, nos. 2, 3); Verso: Temple Types: Peripteral (Vitruvius, Book 3, Chapter 2, no. 5).

Sangallo family · 1530–45

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Antonio da Labacco

Design for the Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Antonio da Labacco · 1514

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Antonio da Labacco

Design for the Basilica of St. Peter's in the Vatican, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Antonio da Labacco · 16th century

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. 42 matched · 24 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. 1273730 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 10:05 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.