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 Guerra” — 57 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:22 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.
A Fountain in a Grotto, by Giovanni Guerra

A Fountain in a Grotto

Giovanni Guerra · ca. 1598

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
Vestal Virgin, by Giovanni Guerra

Vestal Virgin

Giovanni Guerra · 16th 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
Saint Paul Surrounded by Disciples after His Lapidation at Lystra (Acts 14:20), by Giovanni Guerra

Saint Paul Surrounded by Disciples after His Lapidation at Lystra (Acts 14:20)

Giovanni Guerra · 1590–1618

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
Design after a Fountain in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati, by Giovanni Guerra

Design after a Fountain in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati

Giovanni Guerra · 1590–1600

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
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

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 Capture of Carthage, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Capture of Carthage

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
Saint Paulinus Preaching

Saint Paulinus Preaching

Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Decoration with the Coat of Arms of the Borghese Family., by Giovanni Guerra

Design for a Wall Decoration with the Coat of Arms of the Borghese Family.

Giovanni Guerra · 1590–1618

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
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

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
Moving the Vatican Obelisk, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Natale Bonifacio

Moving the Vatican Obelisk, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Natale Bonifacio · 1586

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

Wall Decoration, Plate XI 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
Tournament Book of Knightly Acts (Thurnier Buech Warhafftiger Ritterlicher Thaten), by Hanns Lautensack

Tournament Book of Knightly Acts (Thurnier Buech Warhafftiger Ritterlicher Thaten)

Hanns Lautensack · 1561

Public domainThe Met
Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, by Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808

Plate I from Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano

Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 – 1808 · 1772–77

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reprint of Le Combat des Sections d'Infantrie (The Battle of the Sections of Infantry), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love), by Jacques Callot

Reprint of Le Combat des Sections d'Infantrie (The Battle of the Sections of Infantry), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

Jacques Callot · after 1615

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

Wall Decoration, Plate XII 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
Reprint of Le Défilé Entrée des Chars de l'Afrique et de l'Aise (The Entrance Parade of the Chariots of Africa and Asia), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love), by Jacques Callot

Reprint of Le Défilé Entrée des Chars de l'Afrique et de l'Aise (The Entrance Parade of the Chariots of Africa and Asia), from La Guerre d'Amour (Guerra d'Amore) (War of Love)

Jacques Callot

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
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. 17 matched · 17 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. 8021 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-29 07:22 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.