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 Maria Benzoni” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-07 11:02 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.
Innocence Protected by Fidelity, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Innocence Protected by Fidelity

Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 1852

Public domainThe Met
William Henry Seward, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809 - 1873

William Henry Seward

Giovanni Maria Benzoni, 1809 - 1873 · 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hector and Andromache, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Hector and Andromache

Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 1871

Public domainThe Met
St. Ignatius Loyola from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Ignatius Loyola from St. Peter's colonnade

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Hector lying on his funeral pyre, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Hector lying on his funeral pyre

Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Balbina from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Balbina from St. Peter's colonnade

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Priam holding the golden urn with the remains of Hector, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Priam holding the golden urn with the remains of Hector

Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
St. Lucy from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Lucy from St. Peter's colonnade

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Priam Ransoming Hector's Body, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Priam Ransoming Hector's Body

Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 19th century

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
Achilles about to kill Hector, Pallas Athena between them, by Giovanni Maria Benzoni

Achilles about to kill Hector, Pallas Athena between them

Giovanni Maria Benzoni · 19th century

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
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
The Tomb of Clara-Maria of Saxony, by Giovanni Folo

The Tomb of Clara-Maria of Saxony

Giovanni Folo · ca. 1800-1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc., by workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro

Bowl with the Arms of Pope Julius II and the Manzoli of Bologna surrounded by putti, cornucopiae, satyrs, dolphins, birds, etc.

workshop of Giovanni Maria Vasaro · 1508

Public domainThe Met
Sketch: A couching dog, by Giovanni Maria Viani, 1636 - 1700

Sketch: A couching dog

Giovanni Maria Viani, 1636 - 1700 · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Queen Henrietta Maria, by Anthony van Dyck

Queen Henrietta Maria

Anthony van Dyck · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Study: An erected forearm and left hand holding something, by Giovanni Maria Viani, 1636 - 1700

Study: An erected forearm and left hand holding something

Giovanni Maria Viani, 1636 - 1700 · 1650–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · 1730s

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Castle with a Portcullis, by Giovanni Maria Quaglio, Italian, active Italy and Germany, 1700 - 1765

Stage Design, Castle with a Portcullis

Giovanni Maria Quaglio, Italian, active Italy and Germany, 1700 - 1765 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Agony in the Garden, by Nicolas Poussin

The Agony in the Garden

Nicolas Poussin · 1626–27

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Silver Candl, by Giovanni Bettati, Italian, 1700 – 1777

Design for a Silver Candl

Giovanni Bettati, Italian, 1700 – 1777 · 1725–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

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
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. 526 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. 39403 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-07 11:02 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.