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. 20 shown for “Bartolo di Fredi” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 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 Adoration of the Magi, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Magi

Bartolo di Fredi · ca. 1390

Public domainThe Met
Gossypium sp.

Gossypium sp.

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Public domainThe Met
Barleria micans Nees

Barleria micans Nees

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Nov 1988

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
Salvia cinnabarina ? M. Martens & Galeotti

Salvia cinnabarina ? M. Martens & Galeotti

Artist not stated in the record · 22 May 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Lopezia clavata Brandegee

Lopezia clavata Brandegee

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Jan 1959

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Madonna and Child

Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1370s

Public domainThe Met
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Nov 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ and the Twelve Apostles, by Taddeo di Bartolo

Christ and the Twelve Apostles

Taddeo di Bartolo · ca. 1400

Public domainThe Met
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 2012

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen, by Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Public domainThe Met
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 Nov 2011

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Catherine of Siena, by Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Catherine of Siena

Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo · about 1476–80

Public domainThe Met
Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Gossypium gossypioides (Ulbr.) Standl.

Artist not stated in the record · 10 Nov 2010

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation, by Paolo di Giovanni Fei

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Peter, Saint Agnes, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Lucy, an Unidentified Female Saint, Saint Paul, and Saint John the Baptist, with Eve and the Serpent; the Annunciation

Paolo di Giovanni Fei · 1390s

Public domainThe Met
Reliquary Bust of Saint Juliana, by Giovanni di Bartolo

Reliquary Bust of Saint Juliana

Giovanni di Bartolo · ca. 1376

Public domainThe Met
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

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. 44 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. 18017 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:21 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.