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. 15 shown for “Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641” — 43 records examined, 14 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:29 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.
Christ Crucified, Attended by the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John the Evangelist, by Lazzaro Tavarone

Christ Crucified, Attended by the Virgin, Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint John the Evangelist

Lazzaro Tavarone · 1556–1641

Public domainThe Met
Design for One Floor of a Painted Facade, by Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641

Design for One Floor of a Painted Facade

Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641 · 1580–1610

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Elevation with a Window and Statues of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Peter in Niches, by Lazzaro Tavarone

Wall Elevation with a Window and Statues of Saint John the Baptist and Saint Peter in Niches

Lazzaro Tavarone · 1576–1641

Public domainThe Met
Ship, by Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641

Ship

Lazzaro Tavarone, Italian, 1556 - 1641 · ca. 1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Allegorical Female Figure Holding a Branch and a Dish, by Lazzaro Tavarone

Allegorical Female Figure Holding a Branch and a Dish

Lazzaro Tavarone · 1556–1641

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Artist not stated in the record · 1517–1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

Drawing

S. Conca, Italian, n.d.

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Bernard from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Bernard from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Mary of Egypt from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Mary of Egypt from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Designs for Bedroom Alcoves: Three Elevations and One Plan, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Designs for Bedroom Alcoves: Three Elevations and One Plan

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of a Church Flanked by Two Houses, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Elevation of a Church Flanked by Two Houses

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Canopy Bed, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Canopy Bed

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Euphorbia pithyusa L.

Euphorbia pithyusa L.

Artist not stated in the record · Jun 1892

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Apothesis of Hercules, Palazzo Gessi, Faenza, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Apothesis of Hercules, Palazzo Gessi, Faenza

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Aniello Falcone, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1607-died Naples, Italy 1656

Drawing

Aniello Falcone, Italian, born Naples, Italy 1607-died Naples, Italy 1656 · n.d.

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. 3 matched · 3 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.3 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7573 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 2026-09-03 10:29 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.