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. 12 shown for “Francesco Villamena” — 40 records examined, 8 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:15 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Saint John the Baptist

Saint John the Baptist

Artist not stated in the record · 1622

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
''La Sacra Genesi figurata da Rafaele D'Urbino nelle logge vaticane'' (Title Page, Raphael's Genesis Frescoes in the Vatican Loggia), by Francesco Villamena, ca.1566 – 1626

''La Sacra Genesi figurata da Rafaele D'Urbino nelle logge vaticane'' (Title Page, Raphael's Genesis Frescoes in the Vatican Loggia)

Francesco Villamena, ca.1566 – 1626 · 1625–26

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John in the Wilderness (Saint Hilarion)

Saint John in the Wilderness (Saint Hilarion)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1613

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1562-1642)

Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1562-1642)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paul the Hermit

Saint Paul the Hermit

Artist not stated in the record · 1613

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"La Sacra Genesi figurata, by Francesco Villamena, ca.1566 – 1626

"La Sacra Genesi figurata

Francesco Villamena, ca.1566 – 1626 · 1625–26

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Book

Woman with a Book

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Woman with a Turban

Woman with a Turban

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Drawing Academy of Francesco Rosaspina

The Drawing Academy of Francesco Rosaspina

Artist not stated in the record · 1811

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piazza San Domenico in Bologna; Piazza San Francesco and Villa Aldini in Bologna; Study of Tomb of Glossatori, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Piazza San Domenico in Bologna; Piazza San Francesco and Villa Aldini in Bologna; Study of Tomb of Glossatori

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco Mazzolini

Francesco Mazzolini

Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 434 matched · 40 examined · 8 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 2026-08-28 22:15 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.