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. 16 shown for “Gian Battista Bolognini” — 64 records examined, 36 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC · served from cache, not re-queried 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.
Bacchus with his companions discovering Ariadne on the island of Naxos, after Reni, by Gian Battista Bolognini

Bacchus with his companions discovering Ariadne on the island of Naxos, after Reni

Gian Battista Bolognini · 1650–80

Public domainThe Met
Carceri Series, Title Page, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Carceri Series, Title Page

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ giving the keys of the church to Saint Peter who kneels before him, by Gian Battista Bolognini

Christ giving the keys of the church to Saint Peter who kneels before him

Gian Battista Bolognini · 1640–70

Public domainThe Met
Title page, "Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma," from part 20 of "The Complete Works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi", by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Title page, "Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma," from part 20 of "The Complete Works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni, by Gian Battista Bolognini

Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni

Gian Battista Bolognini · ca. 1640–70

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ on the cross, Saint John the Baptist at right, Mary Magdelene and the Virgin at left, after Reni, by Gian Battista Bolognini

Christ on the cross, Saint John the Baptist at right, Mary Magdelene and the Virgin at left, after Reni

Gian Battista Bolognini · ca. 1640–88

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Casti (1721-1803)

Portrait of Giovanni Battista Casti (1721-1803)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni, by Gian Battista Bolognini

Massacre of the Innocents; group of women and children being attacked, two angels at upper left, after Reni

Gian Battista Bolognini · ca. 1640–70

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of a Woman, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Portrait of a Woman

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Pope Clement X (1590–1676), by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Pope Clement X (1590–1676)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670–71

Public domainThe Met
Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy, by Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima)

Three Saints: Roch, Anthony Abbot, and Lucy

Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1513

Public domainThe Met
Portici della piazza di S. Pietro di Roma. Plate 44 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano', by Giovanni Battista Bonacina

Portici della piazza di S. Pietro di Roma. Plate 44 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano'

Giovanni Battista Bonacina · ca. 1656–67

Public domainThe Met
Head of an Old Woman, by Orazio Borgianni

Head of an Old Woman

Orazio Borgianni · after 1610

Public domainThe Met
Hercules Delivering the Erymanthean Boar to Eurystheus, by François Lespingola

Hercules Delivering the Erymanthean Boar to Eurystheus

François Lespingola · last quarter 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), by Leonardo da Vinci

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci · 1496

Public domainThe Met
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. 35 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. 692 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 22:16 UTC, replayed here rather than repeated. 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.