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 “Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Caricature with two men on a mule
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1575–99

Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

Section and elevation of the Colosseum in Rome
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1581

Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto
Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

A man climbs a ladder while a woman throws water on him from above
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1575–99

Plan and Elevation for the Chapel of Orazio Lancellotti at San Giovanni Archbasilica
Giovanni Battista De Rossi, Italian, ca. 1601 - 1678 · ca. 1675

View of the Tiber Island represented as a ship, the Temple of Aesculapius at left
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria
Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · 1630

Audience given by Pope Pius V to Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1575–99

Raccolta di teste
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804 · ca. 1757

The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1579

Saint Paulinus Preaching
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

Trajan's Column, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1581–86

Dr. Eduardo San Giovanni
William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · 1906

Ancient Rome, and its Hills, from the West, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)
Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

The Colosseum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1581

Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)
Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

The Septizodium, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano
Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

View of Modern Rome from the West, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1590

Wall Decoration, Plate XII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)
Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

Pyramid of Caius Cestius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"
Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Palace of the Prince of Palestrina, Side Elevation Toward the Piazza Bernini, Rome
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
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. 104 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. 1646 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-01 17:29 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.