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. 14 shown for “Gioan Battista Nocchi” — 42 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:23 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.
Saint John the Baptist, by Gioan Battista Nocchi

Saint John the Baptist

Gioan Battista Nocchi · ca. 1843

Public domainThe Met
The Massacre of the Innocents

The Massacre of the Innocents

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1780-1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Denial of Saint Peter, by Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

The Denial of Saint Peter

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

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
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
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
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
A Stucco Angel from the Nave Vault, Church of the Gesu, Rome," from the album "Drawings after Ornament and Architecture", by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

A Stucco Angel from the Nave Vault, Church of the Gesu, Rome," from the album "Drawings after Ornament and Architecture"

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Catologue of the artist's work (Table of Contents of the Vedute di Roma), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

The Catologue of the artist's work (Table of Contents of the Vedute di Roma)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · ca. 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Washbasin, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Washbasin, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Diverse Trophies

Diverse Trophies

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Girl with Globe, by Unidentified

Girl with Globe

Unidentified

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenographia Campi Martii, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Scenographia Campi Martii, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Paulinus Preaching

Saint Paulinus Preaching

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 322 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-26 23:23 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.