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 “Goro di Gregorio” — 64 records examined, 7 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 13:14 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.
Enthroned Virgin, by Goro di Gregorio

Enthroned Virgin

Goro di Gregorio · first half 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Piazza San Gregorio, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

Piazza San Gregorio

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889 · n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza, by Lorenzo Lotto

Brother Gregorio Belo of Vicenza

Lorenzo Lotto · 1547

Public domainThe Met
Knautia pannonica Herner

Knautia pannonica Herner

Artist not stated in the record · 1902

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Hydrurus foetidus (Villars) Trevis.

Hydrurus foetidus (Villars) Trevis.

Artist not stated in the record · -- Jul ----

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Bartolo di Fredi

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Bartolo di Fredi · 1374

Public domainThe Met
Silene congesta Sm.

Silene congesta Sm.

Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Portrait of a Young Man

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Codia nitida Schltr.

Codia nitida Schltr.

Artist not stated in the record · 22 Mar 1981

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study, Profile of Architectural Molding (verso), by Gregorio Pagani

The Head and Shoulders of a Woman in Profile; Separate Studies of Her Head and Ear (recto); Fragment of Drapery Study, Profile of Architectural Molding (verso)

Gregorio Pagani · 1592

Public domainThe Met
Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P. Beauv.

Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raccolta delle Principale Fontane dell' Inclitta Città di Roma con la nova Aguinta disegnate da Girolamo Felice Romano et intaglate da Pietro Miotte Borg.ne, by Domenico Parasacchi

Raccolta delle Principale Fontane dell' Inclitta Città di Roma con la nova Aguinta disegnate da Girolamo Felice Romano et intaglate da Pietro Miotte Borg.ne

Domenico Parasacchi · after 1651

Public domainThe Met
Euphorbia heterophylla var. cyathophora (Murr.) Griseb.

Euphorbia heterophylla var. cyathophora (Murr.) Griseb.

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Feb 1948

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plate 1: Apuleius changed into a donkey, listening to the story told by the old woman, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius", by Master of the Die

Plate 1: Apuleius changed into a donkey, listening to the story told by the old woman, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

Master of the Die · 1530–60

Public domainThe Met
Sphagnum sp.

Sphagnum sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Canonization of Five Cardinals in Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome, by Giuseppe Tiburtio Vergelli

Canonization of Five Cardinals in Saint Peter's Basilica, Rome

Giuseppe Tiburtio Vergelli · 1690

Public domainThe Met
Caledopteryx sarasini

Caledopteryx sarasini

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1692, by Giovanni Battista Falda

The Girandola at the Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, 1692

Giovanni Battista Falda · 1692–1702

Public domainThe Met
Oncotheca balansae Baill.

Oncotheca balansae Baill.

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Aug 1978

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute, by Francesco Guardi

Venice: The Dogana and Santa Maria della Salute

Francesco Guardi

Public domainThe Met
Hypericum synstylum N. Robson

Hypericum synstylum N. Robson

Artist not stated in the record · 9 Dec 1962

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670), by Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez)

Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670)

Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · 1650

Public domainThe Met
Tristaniopsis capitulata Brongn. & Gris

Tristaniopsis capitulata Brongn. & Gris

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Nov 1955

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. 55 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 18787 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 2026-09-05 13:14 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.