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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Palace of the Prince of Palestrina, Side Elevation Toward the Piazza Bernini, Rome
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Elevation, Chapel and Alter of San Lorenzo Basilica
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)
Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Plan and Elevation of Cornaro Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

The Lamentation
Scipione Pulzone (Il Gaetano) · 1593

Plan and Elevation for Cornaro Chapel, San Lorenzo Basilica
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

Pope Clement X
Girolamo Lucenti · ca. 1670

Plan and Elevation for Chapel or Niche of San Lorenzo Basilica
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

Neptune with a dolphin
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · late 17th century or early 18th century

Elevation of the Fonsechi Chapel in San Lorenzo
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

Saint Agnes
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · early 18th century

Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · 1707

Seated Figures of Saint Ursula and Saint Cecilia
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1598–1680

Plan and Elevation for the Chigi Chapel at the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo
Raphael, Italian, 1483–1520 · ca. 1652–1655

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

Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers
Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1707

Isolated View of Bernini's Baldacchino. Plate 39 from the Album 'Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano'
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1653–91

Design for a Basin
Artist not stated in the record · 17th-19th century

Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · ca. 1616–17

Memorial to Sister Maria Raggi in S. Maria sopra Minerva
Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies ? (verso)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1642–43

Cross section of church of S. Tommaso da Villanova
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1655–67
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.