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 “International or Initial Style artist(s)” — 24 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:28 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Figure pendant
International or Initial Style artist(s) · 400–900 CE

Double-eagle pendant
Initial Style artist(s) · 1–500 CE

Stylized Figure Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century

Seahorse pendant
International Style artist(s) · 400–900 CE

The Denial of Saint Peter
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1610

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family
Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

The Musicians
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1597

Animal Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century

Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

The Penitence of Saint Jerome
Joachim Patinir · ca. 1515

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504
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. 1031 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-27 03:28 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.