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. 24 shown for “Carlo Fontana” — 60 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:18 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.
Design for the Façade of Santi Faustino e Giovita, Rome, by Carlo Fontana

Design for the Façade of Santi Faustino e Giovita, Rome

Carlo Fontana · 1652–1725

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Carlo Fontana, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Carlo Fontana

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

The Lottery in Piazza di Montecitorio

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1743–1744

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation of the Ginetti Chapel at Sant'Andrea della Valle Basilica, by Carlo Fontana, Italian, 1634 - 1714

Plan and Elevation of the Ginetti Chapel at Sant'Andrea della Valle Basilica

Carlo Fontana, Italian, 1634 - 1714 · 1671

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fontana di Belvedere á Frascati (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 5), by Giovanni Battista Falda

Fontana di Belvedere á Frascati (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 5)

Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation of the Ginetti Chapel and Altar in Sant'Andrea della Valle Basilica, by Carlo Fontana, Italian, 1634 - 1714

Plan and Elevation of the Ginetti Chapel and Altar in Sant'Andrea della Valle Basilica

Carlo Fontana, Italian, 1634 - 1714 · 1671

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Flowers in a Grotesque Vase, by Orsola Maddalena Caccia

Flowers in a Grotesque Vase

Orsola Maddalena Caccia · ca. 1635

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation of the Cybo Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, by Carlo Fontana, Italian, 1634 - 1714

Plan and Elevation of the Cybo Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

Carlo Fontana, Italian, 1634 - 1714 · 1682–1687

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Marble head of a Hellenistic ruler

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Project: A pulpit shown in profile

Project: A pulpit shown in profile

Artist not stated in the record · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Esther before Ahasuerus, by Artemisia Gentileschi

Esther before Ahasuerus

Artemisia Gentileschi · 1620s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Altar at Santo Spirito dei Napolitani (Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans), Rome, Italy

Design for Altar at Santo Spirito dei Napolitani (Holy Spirit of the Neapolitans), Rome, Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 1690–1702

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Magi, by Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi)

The Adoration of the Magi

Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi) · 1500–1571

Public domainThe Met
Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sepulchral Monument for Felice Fontana, Professor of Philosophy, Padua

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · after 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altra Vedvta in Prospettiva del Teatro et Giardino Contigvo di Mondragone in Frascati (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 18), by Giovanni Battista Falda

Altra Vedvta in Prospettiva del Teatro et Giardino Contigvo di Mondragone in Frascati (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 18)

Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana var. alpicola Paris

Philonotis fontana var. alpicola Paris

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veduta di Tutta la Basilica Vaticana (...) from: Il Nuovo Teatro delle Fabbriche, et Edificii, in Prospettiva di Rome Moderna (...), by Giovanni Battista Falda

Veduta di Tutta la Basilica Vaticana (...) from: Il Nuovo Teatro delle Fabbriche, et Edificii, in Prospettiva di Rome Moderna (...)

Giovanni Battista Falda · 1665–69

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Album of Drawings, by Filippo Juvarra

Album of Drawings

Filippo Juvarra · 1678–1736

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of a bearded Hercules

Marble statue of a bearded Hercules

Artist not stated in the record · 68–98 CE

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther, by François Duquesnoy

Marble statue of Dionysos seated on a panther

François Duquesnoy · 1st–3rd century CE

Public domainThe Met
Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Philonotis fontana (Hedw.) Brid.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 20 matched · 20 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. 28023 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-31 02:18 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.