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. 12 shown for “Giovanni Mauro della Rovere” — 40 records examined, 18 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:36 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere, by Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere

Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Chapel Wall, by Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630

Design for a Chapel Wall

Giovanni Battista della Rovere, Italian, ca. 1561–ca. 1630 · late 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vases, from Le Blanc 4.

Vases, from Le Blanc 4.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Stage Set for Il Trionfo della Pietà

Stage Set for Il Trionfo della Pietà

Artist not stated in the record · 1658

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Frontispiece: Della Magnificenza Ed. Architettura Dei Romani

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Set Design for Scene 3, "La Vita Humana overo," from "Il Trionfo della Pieta", by Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian, 1606 – 1680

Set Design for Scene 3, "La Vita Humana overo," from "Il Trionfo della Pieta"

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, Italian, 1606 – 1680 · 1658

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Vases, from Le Blanc 4.

Vases, from Le Blanc 4.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A parade float in Reggio, Italy: "Carro trionfale della Compagnia di S. Rocco" (The Triumphal Carriage of the Company of St. Roch). Plate 2b from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]" published by Flaminio Bartoli, Reggio.

A parade float in Reggio, Italy: "Carro trionfale della Compagnia di S. Rocco" (The Triumphal Carriage of the Company of St. Roch). Plate 2b from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]" published by Flaminio Bartoli, Reggio.

Artist not stated in the record · 1619

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A parade float in Reggio, Italy: "Carro trionfale della Confraternità del S.to Sacrame.to di S. Stefano" (The Triumphal Carriage of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament of St. Stephen). Plate 2a from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]" published by Flaminio Bartoli, Reggio.

A parade float in Reggio, Italy: "Carro trionfale della Confraternità del S.to Sacrame.to di S. Stefano" (The Triumphal Carriage of the Confraternity of the Holy Sacrament of St. Stephen). Plate 2a from A. Isacchi, "Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennità, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio [...]" published by Flaminio Bartoli, Reggio.

Artist not stated in the record · 1619

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784), by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770

Dedication Page to Charles III of Spain and the Two Sicilies, frontispiece for Paolantonio Paoli, Rovine della città di Pesto detta ancora Posidonia (1784)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian, 1692 - 1770 · ca. 1765

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Palace of the Marchese Serlupi

Palace of the Marchese Serlupi

Artist not stated in the record · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Adoring Angel, by Giovanni della Robbia, Italian, born Florence, Italy 1469-died Florence, Italy 1529/30

Adoring Angel

Giovanni della Robbia, Italian, born Florence, Italy 1469-died Florence, Italy 1529/30 · 15th-16th 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2478 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 20:36 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.