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. 17 shown for “Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739” — 17 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:20 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Designs for the Theater at Nancy: Longitudinal Section and Half Ground Plan
Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1709

A Court Scene
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1700–1739

Design for Stage Set with Double Storey of Torqued Columns and Balustrades
Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1659–1739

Stage Design: Palace Interior
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1700–1750

Design for a Stage Set: Interior of a Ballroom or Theater with Torqued Columns and Large Volutes Above
Francesco Galli Bibiena · 1676–1736

Theater Design: A Town Square
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · ca. 1719

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

Section of the House and Proscenium
Saverio Avesani, Italian, b. 1690 · ca. 1720

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

Exterior, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

Sketch for a Stage Set: Foreshortened View of a Palace with a Figure on the Stairs
Antonio Galli Bibiena · 1700–74

Transverse Section, Proscenium, and Curtain, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1731

Half Ground Plan and Half Elevation for a Catafalque for Duke Francesco of Parma (1694–1727)
Giuseppe Galli Bibiena · ca. 1727

Teatro Filarmonico, Accademia Filarmonica, Verona, Italy: Section and Ceiling
Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian, 1659–1739 · 1715–20

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

Design for the Decoration of the ceiling of a chapel
Artist not stated in the record · 1725–1740

Side Wall Elevation of the Riding Academy, Vienna
Artist not stated in the record · 1740–44
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 10 matched · 10 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 16:20 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.