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 “Giovanni Aurispa, Secretary to Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V (ca. 1369–1459)” — 44 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 21:29 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Giovanni Aurispa, Secretary to Popes Eugene IV and Nicholas V (ca. 1369–1459)
Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Raccolta di teste
Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1774

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

A Pope with a Book
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760–1770

The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1436–38

Doorway Elevation with Papal Coat of Arms
Pietro Camporese I, Italian, 1726 - 1781 · ca. 1758–1769

The Agony in the Garden
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Decorated Capital Letter C
Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752 · ca. 1715

Artist not stated in the record · 1619

Decorated Capital Letter N
Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752 · ca. 1715
![Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican [Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, plate IV], by Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-A298FEF5FE792-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican [Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, plate IV]
Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

Decorated Capital Letter C
Jakob Frey, Swiss, active Italy, 1681 - 1752 · ca. 1715

William Henry Seward
Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809 - 1873 · 1872

Del Castello dell'Aqua Giulia, plate IV from "Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia (The Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Aqua Giulia)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1761

Via crucis - Station IV, He Meets His Mother
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1749

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · 18th 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. 4 matched · 4 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2258176 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-06 21:29 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.