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. 12 shown for “Giovanni Battista Falda” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 16:30 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

View of the Villa Medici
Giovanni Battista Falda · after 1677

Stanza di Venti nel Teatro di Belvedere di Frascati
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1660–78

Catafalque for Pope Clement X; central structure at the top of a fifteen step platform, with columns surmounted by candelabra at each of the four corners
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1676

Catafalque for Pope Clement X: a central structure raised on a 15 stepped platform, with columns surmounted by elaborate candelabra at each corner
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1676

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Theater in Saint Peter's Basilica for the Canonization of Gaetano Thiene and Francis Borgia on April 12, 1671
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1671

Fontana nella Piazza della Trinita de Monti (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after

Fontana del Sig. Prencipe di Pallestrina (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after
![Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana del Moro], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", by Giovanni Battista Falda](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP273750.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana del Moro], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after
![Altra Veduta della Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", by Giovanni Battista Falda](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP273749.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Altra Veduta della Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after
![Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", by Giovanni Battista Falda](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fdp%2Fweb-large%2FDP273748.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Fontana in Piazza Navona [Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi], from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)"
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after

Altra Vedvta in Prospettiva del Teatro et Giardino Contigvo di Mondragone in Frascati (...), from "La Fontane di Roma nelle Piazze e Luoghi Publici (...)", part 2, 'Le fontane delle ville di Frascati' (plate 18)
Giovanni Battista Falda · 1691 or after
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. 1239 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 16:30 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.