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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 della Rovere” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 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 Massacre of the Innocents, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere

The Massacre of the Innocents

Giovanni Battista della Rovere · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

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

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Giovanni Battista Foggini

Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Giovanni Battista Foggini · ca. 1680–82

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
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Palace of the Marchese Serlupi

Palace of the Marchese Serlupi

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

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 Capture of Carthage, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Capture of Carthage

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

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
Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584), by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584)

Giovanni Battista Moroni · shortly after 1553

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
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Public domainThe Met
Spaccato della bottega ad uso di caffè detta degl'Inglesi situata in piazza di Spagna..., from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Spaccato della bottega ad uso di caffè detta degl'Inglesi situata in piazza di Spagna..., from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Glorification of the Barbaro Family

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1750

Public domainThe Met
View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome from series : "Vedute di Roma", v. II, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

View of the Piazza del Popolo, Rome from series : "Vedute di Roma", v. II

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Altro spaccato per longo della stessa bottega, ove si vedonofra le aperture del vestibolo le immense piramide, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1769

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Public domainThe Met
Basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1745-1778), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1745-1778)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1748–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1758–59

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere, by Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere

Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

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. 361 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. 2373 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 2026-08-26 20:21 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.