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 “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

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.
Ceiling

Ceiling

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy

Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
Sketches of the Interior and Exterior of a Church, Rome, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Sketches of the Interior and Exterior of a Church, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · October 1868 - April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, by Antonio Canova

Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Antonio Canova · 1804–6

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

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Ruins near the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ruins near the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
The Elevation of a Church Doorway, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

The Elevation of a Church Doorway

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Farnese Table, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Farnese Table

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · ca. 1565–73

Public domainThe Met
Sketches for a Ceiling Painting: The Triumphant Church, by Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678–1745

Sketches for a Ceiling Painting: The Triumphant Church

Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian, 1678–1745 · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Perspective Design for a Painted Dome and Cupola of a Church

Perspective Design for a Painted Dome and Cupola of a Church

Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Andrew, by Andrea Bregno

Saint Andrew

Andrea Bregno · 1491

Public domainThe Met
Angel in the Church of the Gesù, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Angel in the Church of the Gesù

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Doorway from the Church of San Nicolò, San Gemini

Artist not stated in the record · carved 1000s, assembled 1100s or 1200s

Public domainThe Met
Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Arch of Septimius Severus, Rome

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano)

The Lamentation

Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Church Festival Setting

Design for a Church Festival Setting

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Recto: candlesticks; Verso: mausoleum in a church-like hall, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Recto: candlesticks; Verso: mausoleum in a church-like hall

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1789–1793

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Personification of the River Nile, by Giovanni Volpato

Personification of the River Nile

Giovanni Volpato · ca. 1785–95

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for the Decoration of Barrel Vaulted Ceiling

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790-1800

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. 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.