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 “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

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.
Caricature with two men on a mule, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Caricature with two men on a mule

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1575–99

Public domainThe Met
Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Section and elevation of the Colosseum in Rome, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Section and elevation of the Colosseum in Rome

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1581

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A man climbs a ladder while a woman throws water on him from above, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

A man climbs a ladder while a woman throws water on him from above

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1575–99

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation for the Chapel of Orazio Lancellotti at San Giovanni Archbasilica, by Giovanni Battista De Rossi, Italian, ca. 1601 - 1678

Plan and Elevation for the Chapel of Orazio Lancellotti at San Giovanni Archbasilica

Giovanni Battista De Rossi, Italian, ca. 1601 - 1678 · ca. 1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of the Tiber Island represented as a ship, the Temple of Aesculapius at left, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

View of the Tiber Island represented as a ship, the Temple of Aesculapius at left

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria, by Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646

Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria

Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Audience given by Pope Pius V to Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Audience given by Pope Pius V to Cosimo I, Duke of Tuscany

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1575–99

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian, 1727 – 1804

Raccolta di teste

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome, by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

The firework display called 'Girandola' at the Castello Sant'Angelo in Rome

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1579

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paulinus Preaching

Saint Paulinus Preaching

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Trajan's Column, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Trajan's Column, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1581–86

Public domainThe Met
Dr. Eduardo San Giovanni, by William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916

Dr. Eduardo San Giovanni

William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Rome, and its Hills, from the West, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Ancient Rome, and its Hills, from the West, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Colosseum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

The Colosseum, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1581

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XI from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Septizodium, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

The Septizodium, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, by Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808

Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano

Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Modern Rome from the West, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

View of Modern Rome from the West, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1590

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pyramid of Caius Cestius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla

Pyramid of Caius Cestius, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Giovanni Ambrogio Brambilla · 1582

Public domainThe Met
Palace of the Prince of Palestrina, Side Elevation Toward the Piazza Bernini, Rome

Palace of the Prince of Palestrina, Side Elevation Toward the Piazza Bernini, Rome

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

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. 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.