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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. 24 shown for “Carlo Galli Bibiena” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 20:30 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.
Foreshortening of a Library, by Carlo Galli Bibiena

Foreshortening of a Library

Carlo Galli Bibiena · 1728–78

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design; Palace Court, by Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena

Stage Design; Palace Court

Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba under a Baldacchino, with Fantastical Architecture and a Gardenscape, by Carlo Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: Solomon Receiving the Queen of Sheba under a Baldacchino, with Fantastical Architecture and a Gardenscape

Carlo Galli Bibiena · 1728–78

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Oval Hall and Arcades, by Carlo Galli Bibiena, 1721 – 1787

Stage Design: Oval Hall and Arcades

Carlo Galli Bibiena, 1721 – 1787 · ca. 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set with a Palace and Bridge, by Carlo Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set with a Palace and Bridge

Carlo Galli Bibiena · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Garden Scene with Fountain, plate 8, part 5, from "Architetture e Prospettive dedicate alla Maestà di Carlo Sesto"

Stage Design: Garden Scene with Fountain, plate 8, part 5, from "Architetture e Prospettive dedicate alla Maestà di Carlo Sesto"

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Varie opere di Prospettive, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Varie opere di Prospettive

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1703

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel

Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural detail of an elaborate cornice, seen from below, by Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti

Architectural detail of an elaborate cornice, seen from below

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti · 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Artist not stated in the record · 1719

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ground Plan of the Catafalque for Anna Cristina, Wife of Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Ground Plan of the Catafalque for Anna Cristina, Wife of Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1756

Public domainThe Met
A "Forum", by Johann Andréas Pfeffel, German, 1674–1748

A "Forum"

Johann Andréas Pfeffel, German, 1674–1748 · 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation and Section of the Catafalque for Anna Cristina, Wife of Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Elevation and Section of the Catafalque for Anna Cristina, Wife of Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · 1696–1756

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Interior, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756

Stage Design: Palace Interior

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch of a Palace Interior, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch of a Palace Interior

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design; Palace Courtyard with Staircase

Stage Design; Palace Courtyard with Staircase

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Prison in Gothic Building

Stage Design, Prison in Gothic Building

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th–late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Foreshortened or Trompe L'Oeil View of the Architecture Surrounding a Courtyard, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Foreshortened or Trompe L'Oeil View of the Architecture Surrounding a Courtyard

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1677–1743

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Architectural Fantasy, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756

Stage Design: Architectural Fantasy

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Setting with Ballet, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Stage Setting with Ballet

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1657–1743

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Interior, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Stage Design: Palace Interior

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaulted Hall with Candelabra, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Vaulted Hall with Candelabra

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1675–1743

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Vaulted Hall of a Palace, by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756

Stage Design: Vaulted Hall of a Palace

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1696–1756 · ca. 1740

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. 131 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. 28830 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-03 20:30 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.