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 Maganza il Giovane” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 04:05 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.
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy (Her Last Communion before Being Dragged by Oxen), by Giovanni Battista Maganza il Giovane

The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy (Her Last Communion before Being Dragged by Oxen)

Giovanni Battista Maganza il Giovane · 1556–1630

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
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

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
Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Geometry

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Washbasin, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Washbasin, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Clement X (1590–1676), by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Pope Clement X (1590–1676)

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670–71

Public domainThe Met
Scenographia Campi Martii, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Scenographia Campi Martii, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio)

Portrait of a Woman

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Il Baciccio) · ca. 1670s

Public domainThe Met
Stage Set for Il Trionfo della Pietà

Stage Set for Il Trionfo della Pietà

Artist not stated in the record · 1658

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation, by Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano)

The Lamentation

Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Sarcaphagus, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Sarcaphagus, page from Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation, by Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli)

Saint Mary Magdalen Holding a Crucifix; (reverse) The Flagellation

Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli) · ca. 1395–1400

Public domainThe Met
Set Design for Scene 3, "La Vita Humana overo," from "Il Trionfo della Pieta", by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian, 1606 – 1680

Set Design for Scene 3, "La Vita Humana overo," from "Il Trionfo della Pieta"

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian, 1606 – 1680 · 1658

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
Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Frontispiece, with Dedication to Robert Adam, in Il Campo Marzio dell'Antica Roma

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

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
Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy

Ceiling of the Church of the Gesù, Rome, Italy

Artist not stated in the record · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Arithmetic, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Arithmetic

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
The Catologue of the artist's work (Table of Contents of the Vedute di Roma), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

The Catologue of the artist's work (Table of Contents of the Vedute di Roma)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · ca. 1779

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Metaphysics

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
The Arch of Marcus Aurelius, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

The Arch of Marcus Aurelius

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1762

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Figure Representing Grammar, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Allegorical Figure Representing Grammar

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760

Public domainThe Met
Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784), by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1765

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. 88 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. 17037 matched · 40 examined · 7 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 04:05 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.