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. 20 shown for “Daniele da Serravalle” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 05:13 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.
Rapier, by Daniele da Serravalle

Rapier

Daniele da Serravalle · dated 1560

Public domainThe Met
Gymnostomum calcareum Nees & Hornsch.

Gymnostomum calcareum Nees & Hornsch.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1480–85

Public domainThe Met
Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Figure of Saint Peter, by Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli)

Study for the Figure of Saint Peter

Daniele da Volterra (Daniele Ricciarelli) · ca. 1545

Public domainThe Met
Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Equestrian Statue of Henry II, King of France, in the Palazzo Rucellai by Daniele de Volterra, by Antonio Tempesta

Equestrian Statue of Henry II, King of France, in the Palazzo Rucellai by Daniele de Volterra

Antonio Tempesta · Published early 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Microcoleus vaginatus (Vaucher) Gomont ex Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 1891

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Trinity, by Bartolomeo di Giovanni

The Trinity

Bartolomeo di Giovanni

Public domainThe Met
Hieracium humile subsp. lacerum (Fr.) Zahn

Hieracium humile subsp. lacerum (Fr.) Zahn

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1897

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
Descent from the Cross

Descent from the Cross

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600-1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Descent from the Cross, by Giovanni Battista Cavalieri

The Descent from the Cross

Giovanni Battista Cavalieri · 1550–1600

Public domainThe Met
Henrya tuberculosperma T.F. Daniel

Henrya tuberculosperma T.F. Daniel

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Apr 1982

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
John the Baptist in the Wilderness, by Giulio Sanuto

John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Giulio Sanuto · ca. 1545–55

Public domainThe Met
Hohenbergia rosea L.B. Sm. & Read

Hohenbergia rosea L.B. Sm. & Read

Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jan 1975

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), by Daniele da Volterra

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564)

Daniele da Volterra · probably ca. 1545

Public domainThe Met
I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia, by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1556

Public domainThe Met
I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia, by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1556

Public domainThe Met
I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia, by Marcus Pollio Vitruvius

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia

Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1556

Public domainThe Met
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. 151 matched · 24 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. 81136 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 05:13 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.