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 Bellini” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 17:54 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.
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Atrium with the Temple of the Hospitallers for the Opera "La Straniera" by Vincenzo Bellini, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Atrium with the Temple of the Hospitallers for the Opera "La Straniera" by Vincenzo Bellini

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · after 1829

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Mezobromelia capituligera (Griseb.) J.R. Grant

Mezobromelia capituligera (Griseb.) J.R. Grant

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child

Giovanni Bellini · early 1460s

Public domainThe Met
Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq.

Casuarina cunninghamiana Miq.

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jan 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1505–10

Public domainThe Met
Mezobromelia capituligera (Griseb.) J.R. Grant

Mezobromelia capituligera (Griseb.) J.R. Grant

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Oct 1979

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Saint Giovanni Gualberto and the Miraculous Crucifix

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
"Bellini" Carpet

"Bellini" Carpet

Artist not stated in the record · 16th–17th century

Public domainThe Met
Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Scenes from Life of San Giovanni Gualberto

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · 1590s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Meditation on the Passion, by Vittore Carpaccio

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio · ca. 1490

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 Circumcision, by Giovanni Bellini

The Circumcision

Giovanni Bellini · 1511

Public domainThe Met
Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria, by Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646

Turkish Ambassador Presenting Gift to Don Giovanni of Austria

Belisario Corenzio, Italian, active 1590–1646 · 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, by Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima)

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1510

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
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paulinus Preaching

Saint Paulinus Preaching

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vulcan Building a Fence Around the Mount of Venus, by Giovanni Bellini

Vulcan Building a Fence Around the Mount of Venus

Giovanni Bellini · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Dr. Eduardo San Giovanni, by William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916

Dr. Eduardo San Giovanni

William Merritt Chase, born Williamsburg, IN 1849-died New York City 1916 · 1906

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican), by Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803

Wall Decoration, Plate XIII from Le loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (Raphael's Loggia in the Vatican)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian, 1733 - 1803 · 1772–1777

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. 217 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1658 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 17:54 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.