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. 24 shown for “Giorgio Vasari” — 64 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 11:45 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 Paul Speaking before King Agrippa (Acts 26), by Giorgio Vasari

Saint Paul Speaking before King Agrippa (Acts 26)

Giorgio Vasari · 1573

Public domainThe Met
Study for a Tribute to Giorgio Vasari, by Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790

Study for a Tribute to Giorgio Vasari

Sante Pacini, Italian, 1735–1790 · ca. 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Judith Decapitating Holofernes, by Giorgio Vasari

Judith Decapitating Holofernes

Giorgio Vasari · 1511–74

Public domainThe Met
Standing Atlante (a Dacian captive)

Standing Atlante (a Dacian captive)

Artist not stated in the record · 1800–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Sleep, by Giorgio Vasari

Allegory of Sleep

Giorgio Vasari · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
Asplenium gibberosum (G. Forst.) Mett.

Asplenium gibberosum (G. Forst.) Mett.

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle mirror frame, by Giorgio Vasari

Tabernacle mirror frame

Giorgio Vasari · ca. 1572

Public domainThe Met
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, by Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934

San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice

Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934 · 1898

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fountain with River Gods and Nymphs, by Giorgio Vasari

Design for a Fountain with River Gods and Nymphs

Giorgio Vasari · 1511–74

Public domainThe Met
Catafalque of Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Rieti, by Sebastiano Cipriani, Italian, 1660 - 1740

Catafalque of Giorgio Bolognetti, Bishop of Rieti

Sebastiano Cipriani, Italian, 1660 - 1740 · 1686

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn, by Giorgio Vasari

The First Fruits of the Earth Offered to Saturn

Giorgio Vasari · 1555–56

Public domainThe Met
Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio, by Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926

Venice from the Tower of San Giorgio

Thomas Moran, born Bolton, England 1837-died Santa Barbara, CA 1926 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegory of Forgetfulness, by Giorgio Vasari

Allegory of Forgetfulness

Giorgio Vasari · ca. 1570

Public domainThe Met
San Giorgio, Venice, by Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916

San Giorgio, Venice

Henry Wolf, born Eckwersheim, Alsace 1852-died New York City 1916 · 1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Abduction of Ganymede, by Giorgio Vasari

The Abduction of Ganymede

Giorgio Vasari · 1511–74

Public domainThe Met
Silene giraldii Gussone

Silene giraldii Gussone

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1913

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Ceiling Decoration in Vasari's House in Arezzo, by Giorgio Vasari

Design for the Ceiling Decoration in Vasari's House in Arezzo

Giorgio Vasari · 1531–74

Public domainThe Met
Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Planch.

Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Planch.

Artist not stated in the record · Oct 1903

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Fountain with Rivergods and Nymphs, by Giorgio Vasari

Design for a Fountain with Rivergods and Nymphs

Giorgio Vasari · 1511–74

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1902 to 9 Feb 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Le Vite de' Piv Eccellenti Pittori Scultori et Architettori..., by Giorgio Vasari

Le Vite de' Piv Eccellenti Pittori Scultori et Architettori...

Giorgio Vasari · 1568

Public domainThe Met
Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Eragrostis macilenta (A. Rich.) Steud.

Artist not stated in the record · 5 Feb 1902 to 9 Feb 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Matthew and the Angel, by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Public domainThe Met
Gladiolus communis L.

Gladiolus communis L.

Artist not stated in the record

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. 147 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 63 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-08-27 11:45 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.