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. 16 shown for “Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1657 – 1743” — 18 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-08 14:13 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.
Stage Setting with Ballet, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Stage Setting with Ballet

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1657–1743

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Atrium Supported by Columns and Pillars, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1657 – 1743

Stage Design: Palace Atrium Supported by Columns and Pillars

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1657 – 1743 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vaulted Hall with Candelabra, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Vaulted Hall with Candelabra

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1675–1743

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Hall in a Palace, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1657 – 1743

Stage Design: Hall in a Palace

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, 1657 – 1743 · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architect's Sketchbook and Sourcebook, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Architect's Sketchbook and Sourcebook

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1700–43

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel

Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel

Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1740

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for One-Quarter of a Ceiling; Elaborate Architectural Ornament in Perspective, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for One-Quarter of a Ceiling; Elaborate Architectural Ornament in Perspective

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1657–1743

Public domainThe Met
Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Costume Design: Persian Prince, for a Stage Production Designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Artist not stated in the record · 1719

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: Semi-Circular Architectural Ruins, Fountains, and an Obelisk, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: Semi-Circular Architectural Ruins, Fountains, and an Obelisk

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1657–1743

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Stage Set: A Town Square with a Fountain, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: A Town Square with a Fountain

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1677–1743

Public domainThe Met
Design of a Perspective for a Stage Set with Courtyard and Triumphal Arch, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design of a Perspective for a Stage Set with Courtyard and Triumphal Arch

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1677–1743

Public domainThe Met
Varie opere di Prospettive, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Varie opere di Prospettive

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1703

Public domainThe Met
Architectural Perspective, in an Oval: Porch of a Palace with Corinthian Columns, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Architectural Perspective, in an Oval: Porch of a Palace with Corinthian Columns

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1657–1743

Public domainThe Met
Foreshortened or Trompe L'Oeil View of the Architecture Surrounding a Courtyard, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Foreshortened or Trompe L'Oeil View of the Architecture Surrounding a Courtyard

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1677–1743

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set of a Palace Interior Decorated with Putti, Garlands and Three Portrait Medallions

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · ca. 1680–1710

Public domainThe Met
Sketch of a Palace Interior, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch of a Palace Interior

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

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. 14 matched · 14 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-08 14:13 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.