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 “Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ceiling
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy
Artist not stated in the record · 1750

Bookcase (one of a pair)
Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Sketches of the Interior and Exterior of a Church, Rome, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

Perseus with the Head of Medusa
Antonio Canova · 1804–6

A Stucco Angel from the Nave Vault, Church of the Gesu, Rome," from the album "Drawings after Ornament and Architecture"
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido
Biduinus · ca. 1175

Ruins near the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1869

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

The Elevation of a Church Doorway
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780
![The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fes%2Fweb-large%2FDP-42913-001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
The Farnese Table
Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Sketches for a Ceiling Painting: The Triumphant Church
Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678–1745 · ca. 1750

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Perspective Design for a Painted Dome and Cupola of a Church
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Saint Andrew
Andrea Bregno · 1491

Angel in the Church of the Gesù
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini
Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1869

The Lamentation
Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

Design for a Church Festival Setting
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

Cassone with painted front panel depicting the Conquest of Trebizond
Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso · after ca. 1461

Recto: candlesticks; Verso: mausoleum in a church-like hall
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

Personification of the River Nile
Giovanni Volpato · ca. 1785–95

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790-1800
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. 5905 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. 3003528 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 13:17 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.