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. 12 shown for “Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima)” — 14 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:02 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare
Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1510

Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy
Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1513

Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1510

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)
Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

Madonna and Child with Saints
Girolamo dai Libri · ca. 1520

The Island of San Michele, Venice
Francesco Guardi · 1770s

The Adoration of the Shepherds
Catena (Vincenzo di Biagio) · probably after 1520

Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Michele da Verona (Michele di Zenone) · probably late 1490s

The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484

The Meditation on the Passion
Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

The Lamentation
Ludovico Mazzolino · ca. 1514–16

Horse and rider startled by a snake
Artist not stated in the record · early 16th century
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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 1 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:02 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.