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 “Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino)” — 43 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-06 02:50 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.
Cincinnatus at the Plough, by Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino)

Cincinnatus at the Plough

Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Artist not stated in the record · 1517–1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Medal: Federigo da Montefeltro, by Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino)

Medal: Federigo da Montefeltro

Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino) · model ca. 1474 (possibly cast 19th or 20th century)

Public domainThe Met
Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican), by Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791

Wall Deocration, Plate II from Raphael's Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Loggia in the Vatican)

Gaetano Savorelli, d. 1791 · 1722–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Boy on a shell, holding a candlestick

Boy on a shell, holding a candlestick

Artist not stated in the record · mid-15th century

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate from "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Pietro Camporesi, Italian, 1726 – 1781

Wall Decoration, Plate from "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Pietro Camporesi, Italian, 1726 – 1781 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · 1626–1629

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grotesque Heads, by Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804

Grotesque Heads

Pietro Antonio Novelli, Italian, 1728 - 1804 · 1750-1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two Arabesque Panel Designs, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Two Arabesque Panel Designs

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1776

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Three Arabesque Panel Designs, by Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788

Three Arabesque Panel Designs

Gilles Paul Cauvet, French, 1731–1788 · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

Artist not stated in the record · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Larus genei

Larus genei

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Apr 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Schizothrix calcicola Gomont

Artist not stated in the record · 1860

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 54977 matched · 40 examined · 2 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 2026-09-06 02:50 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.