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 “Diptych with Death and Coronation of the Virgin” — 64 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 07:03 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.
Diptych with Death and Coronation of the Virgin

Diptych with Death and Coronation of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Coronation of the Virgin, by Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560

Coronation of the Virgin

Master of the Die, Italian or German, 1530 - 1560 · 1530–1560

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with the Death and Coronation of the Virgin

Diptych with the Death and Coronation of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1330–50

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · ca. 1630-1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition), by Tilman Heysacker

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid- to late 15th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coronation of the Virgin, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Public domainThe Met
Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right], by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Inscription [above left]; Woman of the Apocalyse [above right]; Coronation of the Virgin [below left]; Frontispiece [below right]

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1580–1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
The Coronation of the Virgin

The Coronation of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Annibale Carracci

The Coronation of the Virgin

Annibale Carracci · after 1595

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Coronation of the Virgin, by Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646

Recto: Coronation of the Virgin

Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes from the Lives of Jesus and Mary

Diptych with Scenes from the Lives of Jesus and Mary

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1589 or before

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Diptych with Scenes of the Annunciation, Nativity, Crucifixion, and Resurrection

Artist not stated in the record · 1300–1325

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 15th-16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Crucifixion

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Crucifixion

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–60

Public domainThe Met
Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting, by Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747

Death of St. Joseph, study for a ceiling painting

Francesco Solimena, Italian, 1657–1747 · ca. 1670–1747

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment, by Jan van Eyck

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment

Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Public domainThe Met
Decoration of an Arched Portal, by Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786

Decoration of an Arched Portal

Carlo Marchionni, Italian, 1702–1786 · 1750–55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Diptych with the Coronation of the Virgin and the Last Judgment

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1260–70

Public domainThe Met
Title Page, Part 9, from an Album of Drawings belonging to Don Gaspero Méndez de Haro y Guzman, by Unknown

Title Page, Part 9, from an Album of Drawings belonging to Don Gaspero Méndez de Haro y Guzman

Unknown · after 1682

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Assumption of the Virgin, by Bernardo Daddi

The Assumption of the Virgin

Bernardo Daddi · 1337–38

Public domainThe Met
Death of the Virgin

Death of the Virgin

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730

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. 477 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. 3232992 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 07:03 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.