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 Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680” — 39 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 18:43 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.
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

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
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Elevation, Chapel and Alter of San Lorenzo Basilica, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Elevation, Chapel and Alter of San Lorenzo Basilica

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation of Cornaro Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Plan and Elevation of Cornaro Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

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

The Lamentation

Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation for Cornaro Chapel, San Lorenzo Basilica, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Plan and Elevation for Cornaro Chapel, San Lorenzo Basilica

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pope Clement X, by Girolamo Lucenti

Pope Clement X

Girolamo Lucenti · ca. 1670

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation for Chapel or Niche of San Lorenzo Basilica, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Plan and Elevation for Chapel or Niche of San Lorenzo Basilica

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune with a dolphin, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Neptune with a dolphin

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · late 17th century or early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of the Fonsechi Chapel in San Lorenzo, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Elevation of the Fonsechi Chapel in San Lorenzo

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Agnes, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Saint Agnes

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · early 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · 1707

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Seated Figures of Saint Ursula and Saint Cecilia, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Seated Figures of Saint Ursula and Saint Cecilia

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1598–1680

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation for the Chigi Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo, by Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520

Plan and Elevation for the Chigi Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo

Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520 · ca. 1652–1655

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portici della piazza di S. Pietro di Roma. Plate 44 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano', by Giovanni Battista Bonacina

Portici della piazza di S. Pietro di Roma. Plate 44 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano'

Giovanni Battista Bonacina · ca. 1656–67

Public domainThe Met
Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1707

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Isolated View of Bernini's Baldacchino. Plate 39 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano', by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Isolated View of Bernini's Baldacchino. Plate 39 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano'

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1653–91

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Basin

Design for a Basin

Artist not stated in the record · 17th-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies ? (verso), by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies ? (verso)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1642–43

Public domainThe Met
Cross section of church of S. Tommaso da Villanova

Cross section of church of S. Tommaso da Villanova

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1655–67

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. 35 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. 15 matched · 15 examined · 1 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 18:43 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.