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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 Galli Bibiena” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 18:33 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.
Designs for the Theater at Nancy: Longitudinal Section and Half Ground Plan, by Francesco Galli Bibiena

Designs for the Theater at Nancy: Longitudinal Section and Half Ground Plan

Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1709

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Interior, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Stage Design: Palace Interior

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Stage Set with Double Storey of Torqued Columns and Balustrades, by Francesco Galli Bibiena

Design for Stage Set with Double Storey of Torqued Columns and Balustrades

Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1659–1739

Public domainThe Met
Theater Design: A Town Square, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Theater Design: A Town Square

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · ca. 1719

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: Interior of a Ballroom or Theater with Torqued Columns and Large Volutes Above, by Francesco Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set: Interior of a Ballroom or Theater with Torqued Columns and Large Volutes Above

Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1676–1736

Public domainThe Met
A Court Scene, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

A Court Scene

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1700–1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for the Theater at Nancy: View of Half the Proscenium and a Half a Section of It; End of the Ceiling; and Ground Plan, by Francesco Galli Bibiena

Designs for the Theater at Nancy: View of Half the Proscenium and a Half a Section of It; End of the Ceiling; and Ground Plan

Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1659–1739

Public domainThe Met
Exterior, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Exterior, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two ladies and two gentlemen dancing within an ornate architectural setting, a fountain at center in the background, a scene from "Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni", by Francesco Galli Bibiena

Two ladies and two gentlemen dancing within an ornate architectural setting, a fountain at center in the background, a scene from "Talestri, Regina delle Amazzoni"

Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1765

Public domainThe Met
Section of the House and Proscenium, by Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690

Section of the House and Proscenium

Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Public domainThe Met
Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Half Ground Plan and Half Elevation for a Catafalque for Duke Francesco of Parma (1694–1727), by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Half Ground Plan and Half Elevation for a Catafalque for Duke Francesco of Parma (1694–1727)

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · ca. 1727

Public domainThe Met
Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling, by Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739

Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling

Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1715–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sketch of a Palace Interior, by Antonio Galli Bibiena

Sketch of a Palace Interior

Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Public domainThe Met
Theatro Filarmonico (Philharmonic Theater) of the Accademia Filarmonica (Philharmonic Academy), Auditorium and Main Entrance Elevation, Verona, Italy, by Jean-Joseph Chamant, French, 1699–1768

Theatro Filarmonico (Philharmonic Theater) of the Accademia Filarmonica (Philharmonic Academy), Auditorium and Main Entrance Elevation, Verona, Italy

Jean-Joseph Chamant, French, 1699–1768 · 1715–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set with a Palace and Bridge, by Carlo Galli Bibiena

Design for a Stage Set with a Palace and Bridge

Carlo Galli Bibiena · 18th century

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
Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza, by Antonio Pollaiuolo

Study for the Equestrian Monument to Francesco Sforza

Antonio Pollaiuolo · early to mid 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna

Artist not stated in the record · 1740–44

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Setting with Ballet, by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Stage Setting with Ballet

Ferdinando Galli Bibiena · 1657–1743

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design; Palace Court, by Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena

Stage Design; Palace Court

Follower of Antonio or Carlo Galli Bibiena · late 17th century

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
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
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. 111 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. 2434 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-09-03 18:33 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.