OpenTwo 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 “Death of the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 17:41 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)
Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century
Death of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730
Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1250
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before
The Death of the Virgin
Bartolomeo Vivarini · 1484
Decoration of an Arched Portal
Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–55
Death of the Virgin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1450–1500
Pediomelum castoreum (S. Watson) Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 May 1891
Death
Artist not stated in the record · mid-17th century
Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting
Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1670–1747
Plaque with the Death of the Virgin
Jean Pénicaud I · early 16th century
Title Page, Part 9, from an Album of Drawings belonging to Don Gaspero Méndez de Haro y Guzman
Unknown · after 1682
Virgin
Joan Avesta · ca. 1370–90
Icon
Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid- to late 15th century
Death of the Virgin
Martin Schongauer · 1470–74
Stylocline intertexta Morefield
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1891
Death of the Virgin
Anonymous · 1578–ca. 1620
Geraea canescens Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1891
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John
Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25
Hordeum jubatum L.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1891
The Death of the Virgin
Martin Schongauer · 1470–75
Dasyochloa pulchella (Kunth) Willd. ex Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1891
The Death of the Virgin
Philips Galle · 1574
Eriophyllum lanosum (A. Gray) A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 6 May 1891
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. 25788 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. 2996060 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 2026-08-28 17:41 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.