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. 23 shown for “Italian (Tuscan) Painter, first quarter of the 14th century” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-31 02:12 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.
Man of Sorrows, by Italian (Tuscan) Painter, first quarter of the 14th century

Man of Sorrows

Italian (Tuscan) Painter, first quarter of the 14th century · first quarter of the 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Design for ceiling decoration, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for ceiling decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Italian (Tuscan) Painter, first quarter of the 14th century

Madonna and Child

Italian (Tuscan) Painter, first quarter of the 14th century · first quarter the 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Landscape with a view towards Caprarola, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Landscape with a view towards Caprarola

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · First quarter of the 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist, by Giovanni Baronzio

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Giovanni Baronzio · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Decorative Study; Verso: Anatomical Study, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Decorative Study; Verso: Anatomical Study

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1814–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Michael and John the Baptist; The Noli Me Tangere; The Conversion of Saint Paul, by Italian (Pisan) Painter

Madonna and Child with Saints Michael and John the Baptist; The Noli Me Tangere; The Conversion of Saint Paul

Italian (Pisan) Painter

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · First quarter of 19th century.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido, by Biduinus

Portal from the Church of San Leonardo al Frigido

Biduinus · ca. 1175

Public domainThe Met
Italy, by Daniel Huntington, born New York City 1816-died New York City 1906

Italy

Daniel Huntington, born New York City 1816-died New York City 1906 · 1843

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee, by Maestro Giorgio Andreoli

Armorial dish: Supper at the House of Simon the Pharisee

Maestro Giorgio Andreoli · 1528

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Unidentified

Ewer

Unidentified · 1500-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters

The Last Supper

Netherlandish (Antwerp Mannerist) Painters · 1515–20

Public domainThe Met
Ewer, by Unidentified

Ewer

Unidentified · 1500-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Scenes from the Life of Christ, by Giovanni Baronzio

Scenes from the Life of Christ

Giovanni Baronzio · mid-1340s

Public domainThe Met
Bowl, by Unidentified

Bowl

Unidentified · 1500-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (coppa): The satyr Silenus on an Ass, by the "Milan Marsyas" Painter

Dish (coppa): The satyr Silenus on an Ass

the "Milan Marsyas" Painter · ca. 1530–35

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)

Portrait of Pius VI (1717-1799)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1783

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dish (piatto): Vulcan forging an arrow for Cupid, by the "Milan Marsyas" Painter

Dish (piatto): Vulcan forging an arrow for Cupid

the "Milan Marsyas" Painter · ca. 1530

Public domainThe Met
Sofa, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Sofa

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795–1805

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Angels, by Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano · 1420

Public domainThe Met
Mosaic Glass Patella Cup, by Unidentified (Roman Empire)

Mosaic Glass Patella Cup

Unidentified (Roman Empire) · 1st century BC-2nd century AD

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo, by Master of Charles of Durazzo

The Conquest of Naples by Charles of Durazzo

Master of Charles of Durazzo · 1381–82

Public domainThe Met
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. 2516 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. 2990855 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-31 02:12 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.