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 “Francesco Bedeschini, Italian” — 64 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:05 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.
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ignatius Loyola with an angel holding a book, by Francesco Bertos

Saint Ignatius Loyola with an angel holding a book

Francesco Bertos · ca. 1722

Public domainThe Met
One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels. Intended to be engraved, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels. Intended to be engraved

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Descent of the Holy Spirit, by Francesco Orlandini

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

Francesco Orlandini · 1547

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trilobed cistern (bacile trilobato), by workshop of Francesco Patanazzi

Trilobed cistern (bacile trilobato)

workshop of Francesco Patanazzi · ca. 1600–1610

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486), by Rogier van der Weyden

Francesco d'Este (born ca. 1429, died after 1486)

Rogier van der Weyden · ca. 1460

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Bocchetta, by Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa)

Francesco Bocchetta

Alessandro Vittoria (Alessandro Vittoria di Vigilio della Volpa) · ca. 1565–90

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for a horizontal panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for a horizontal panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro, by Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi)

Francesco Sassetti (1421–1490) and His Son Teodoro

Domenico Ghirlandaio (Domenico Bigordi) · ca. 1488

Public domainThe Met
One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels. Intended to be engraved, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels. Intended to be engraved

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio, by Francesco di Giorgio Martini

Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio

Francesco di Giorgio Martini · ca. 1478–82

Public domainThe Met
One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540), by Francesco Francia

Federico Gonzaga (1500–1540)

Francesco Francia · 1510

Public domainThe Met
One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels. Intended to be engraved, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels. Intended to be engraved

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio, by Francesco Guardi

The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio

Francesco Guardi · ca. 1765–68

Public domainThe Met
One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration for horizontal panels

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel, by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of projects for a title page and for the decoration of a vertical panel

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Sforza (1401–1466), Fourth Duke of Milan (r. 1450–66)

Francesco Sforza (1401–1466), Fourth Duke of Milan (r. 1450–66)

Artist not stated in the record · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel., by Francesco Bedeschini, Italian

One of a set of trophies of weapons of war as a decoration of a horizontal panel.

Francesco Bedeschini, Italian · 1675-1699

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. 2177 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. 6452 matched · 40 examined · 0 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 2026-09-04 05:05 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.