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 de' Vecchi” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 01:47 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 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
Cerastium campanulatum Viv.

Cerastium campanulatum Viv.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint John the Evangelist, by Giovanni de' Vecchi

Saint John the Evangelist

Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1598–99

Public domainThe Met
Salvia clandestina L.

Salvia clandestina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Wall Decoration: Representations of the Ascension and of the Conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch, by Giovanni de' Vecchi

Design for a Wall Decoration: Representations of the Ascension and of the Conversion of the Ethiopian Eunuch

Giovanni de' Vecchi · ca. 1600

Public domainThe Met
Cheiranthus x cheiri L.

Cheiranthus x cheiri L.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12), by Giovanni de' Vecchi

Esther and Mordecai before King Ahasuerus (Esther 8:1- 12)

Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1536/7–1615

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
Standing Figure of Saint Peter Holding Book and Keys., by Giovanni de' Vecchi

Standing Figure of Saint Peter Holding Book and Keys.

Giovanni de' Vecchi · 1536/7–1615

Public domainThe Met
Salvia clandestina L.

Salvia clandestina L.

Artist not stated in the record · 1836

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Piazza San Marco, by Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)

Piazza San Marco

Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) · late 1720s

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
The Death of St. Benedict, plate 13 from "Les Eglises Jubilaires" (The Paintings of Rome, The Churches Jubilee), by Jacques Callot

The Death of St. Benedict, plate 13 from "Les Eglises Jubilaires" (The Paintings of Rome, The Churches Jubilee)

Jacques Callot · 1607–11

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
L'Apotre Saint Pierre (St. Peter the Apostle), by Jacques Callot

L'Apotre Saint Pierre (St. Peter the Apostle)

Jacques Callot · ca. 1626

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
Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes, by Donato de' Bardi

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes

Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Public domainThe Met
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Three Ages of Humans, by Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero)

The Three Ages of Humans

Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Public domainThe Met
The Genius of Castiglione, by Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691

The Genius of Castiglione

Giovanni Giacomo de'Rossi, Italian, 1627 - 1691 · 1648

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
Project for the Interior of the Sacristy of St. Giovanni de’ Florentini in Rome, by Giuseppe Palazzi, Italian, 1740 - 1810

Project for the Interior of the Sacristy of St. Giovanni de’ Florentini in Rome

Giuseppe Palazzi, Italian, 1740 - 1810 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ancient Rome, by Giovanni Paolo Panini

Ancient Rome

Giovanni Paolo Panini · 1757

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
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. 1567 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. 613990 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-05 01:47 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.