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. 15 shown for “Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 23:10 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.
Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals

Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Rendering of Various Decorative details of Bologna; Verso: Architectural Details

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals

Cloister Arcades with Double Capitals

Artist not stated in the record · late 13th–early 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1835–45

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design after 13th Century Arcade, Bologna; Verso, Anatomical Study, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Design after 13th Century Arcade, Bologna; Verso, Anatomical Study

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
In Cloister of Cathedreal, Le Puy, by Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925

In Cloister of Cathedreal, Le Puy

Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857–1925 · 1883

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frieze

Frieze

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle, by Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782

Elévation d'un Cabinet Orné de Pilastre avec Armoires pouvant contenir des livres ou des Morceaux d'histoire Naturelle

Juste-François Boucher, French, 1736 – 1782 · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Double Door and Overdoor, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Double Door and Overdoor

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1780–1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arcade with Serpents and Fireworks

Arcade with Serpents and Fireworks

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Workmen building arcades

Workmen building arcades

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Design of a Sepulchral Monument for a Cloister

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Decoration de Lambris d’une Chambre de parade du côté de la Cheminée, by André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787

Decoration de Lambris d’une Chambre de parade du côté de la Cheminée

André Basset, French, active 1749 – 1787 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Cuxa Cloister

Cuxa Cloister

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1130–40

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

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. 24 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. 280008 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-04 23:10 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.