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. 22 shown for “Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso” — 50 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 05:44 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond, by Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate from "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Pietro Camporesi, Italian, 1726 – 1781

Wall Decoration, Plate from "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Pietro Camporesi, Italian, 1726 – 1781 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Story of Esther, by Marco del Buono Giamberti

The Story of Esther

Marco del Buono Giamberti

Public domainThe Met
Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican), by Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791

Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican)

Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791 · 1722–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, by Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio)

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Jacopo di Arcangelo (called Jacopo del Sellaio) · ca. 1465

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy, by Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Saint John the Baptist; Saint Lucy

Perugino (Pietro di Cristoforo Vannucci)

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804

Raccolta di teste

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804 · ca. 1757

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Baptism of Christ, by Alessandro Algardi

Baptism of Christ

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, by Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808

Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano

Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, by Biagio d'Antonio

Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts

Biagio d'Antonio

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Arrest of Christ, by Niccolò Giolfino

The Arrest of Christ

Niccolò Giolfino · ca. 1545–46

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scherzi di Fantasia

Scherzi di Fantasia

Artist not stated in the record · 1757–1762

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. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 18930 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-08-26 05:44 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.