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 Battista Costaguti the Elder” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 09:37 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.
Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (spine title), by Giovanni Battista Costaguti the Elder

Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (spine title)

Giovanni Battista Costaguti the Elder · 1620–84

Public domainThe Met
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
A Dance in the Country, by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

A Dance in the Country

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1755

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
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paulinus Preaching

Saint Paulinus Preaching

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson Captured by the Philistines, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

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
Saint Matthew and the Angel, by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

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
Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova (1490?–1558)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · 1557

Public domainThe Met
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
View of an Island with Antique Ruins (The Abduction of Europa), from: Imagini Favolose, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder

View of an Island with Antique Ruins (The Abduction of Europa), from: Imagini Favolose

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder · 1575–85

Public domainThe Met
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
Standing and Seated Figures in a Landscape with an Obelisk, by Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder

Standing and Seated Figures in a Landscape with an Obelisk

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder · 1520–83

Public domainThe Met
Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

Martyrdom of Saint Stephen

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Roman ruins with the horse tamers (Dioscuri) on the Quirinal Hill, plate 36 from "Discorsi Sopra L’Antichita di Roma", by Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder

Roman ruins with the horse tamers (Dioscuri) on the Quirinal Hill, plate 36 from "Discorsi Sopra L’Antichita di Roma"

Giovanni Battista Pittoni the Elder · 1730–60

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds, by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi

Grape Vines and Fruit, with Three Birds

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi · ca. 1615–18

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Group of Laborers in a Field (recto); Angel Appearing to a Kneeling Saint (verso), by Giovanni Battista Maganza the Elder

Group of Laborers in a Field (recto); Angel Appearing to a Kneeling Saint (verso)

Giovanni Battista Maganza the Elder · 1530–86

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
John Milton, by Giovanni Battista Cipriani

John Milton

Giovanni Battista Cipriani · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Raccolta di teste

Raccolta di teste

Artist not stated in the record · 1770–1774

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. 28 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. 1186823 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-03 09:37 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.