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 “Leonardo Marini” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 00:09 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.
Design for a Wall and a Ceiling Decoration, by Leonardo Marini

Design for a Wall and a Ceiling Decoration

Leonardo Marini · 1774–78

Public domainThe Met
Mullus argentinae Hubbs & Marini

Mullus argentinae Hubbs & Marini

Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jan 1888

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Ceiling, by Leonardo Marini

Design for a Ceiling

Leonardo Marini · 1774–78

Public domainThe Met
Design for One Eighth of a Ceiling of a Reception Room at the Royal Palace at Moncalieri, by Leonardo Marini

Design for One Eighth of a Ceiling of a Reception Room at the Royal Palace at Moncalieri

Leonardo Marini · 1774–78

Public domainThe Met
Microplitis marini

Microplitis marini

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Jun 1997

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Stage Set: A Classical Courtyard and Colonnade with a Statue of Minerva, by Leonardo Marini

Design for a Stage Set: A Classical Courtyard and Colonnade with a Statue of Minerva

Leonardo Marini · 1780–90

Public domainThe Met
Study of a Rearing Horse after Leonardo da Vinci, by Francesco Melzi, Italian, 1491 – 1570

Study of a Rearing Horse after Leonardo da Vinci

Francesco Melzi, Italian, 1491 – 1570 · ca. 1520–25

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Interior of a Gallery of a Palace, by Leonardo Marini

Design for the Interior of a Gallery of a Palace

Leonardo Marini · 1760–97

Public domainThe Met
Picramnia guerrerensis W.W. Thomas

Picramnia guerrerensis W.W. Thomas

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jun 1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling, by Leonardo Marini

Design for Ceiling

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Self-Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, from "Original Designs of the Most Celibrated Mastesr of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine, and Venetian Schools, in his Majesty's Collection"

Self-Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, from "Original Designs of the Most Celibrated Mastesr of the Bolognese, Roman, Florentine, and Venetian Schools, in his Majesty's Collection"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ornamental Design for Niche, by Leonardo Marini

Ornamental Design for Niche

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Artemisia argentea

Artemisia argentea

Artist not stated in the record · May 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling, by Leonardo Marini

Design for Ceiling

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Silene maritima With.

Silene maritima With.

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1865

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling, by Leonardo Marini

Design for Ceiling

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Steindachnerina biornata

Steindachnerina biornata

Artist not stated in the record · Jul 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Stage Set, by Leonardo Marini

Design for Stage Set

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela

Sporobolus pumilus (Roth) P.M. Peterson & Saarela

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Wall Design, by Leonardo Marini

Wall Design

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene

Distichlis spicata (L.) Greene

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for Ceiling, by Leonardo Marini

Design for Ceiling

Leonardo Marini · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Chloris prieurii Kunth

Chloris prieurii Kunth

Artist not stated in the record · Sep 1888

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. 39 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. 409 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-09-04 00:09 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.