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. 14 shown for “Lorenzo Pasinelli” — 42 records examined, 28 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 22:45 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.
Winged Putti with Open Music Books, by Lorenzo Pasinelli

Winged Putti with Open Music Books

Lorenzo Pasinelli · 1629–1700

Public domainThe Met
Elevation, Chapel and Alter of San Lorenzo Basilica, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Elevation, Chapel and Alter of San Lorenzo Basilica

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Peter Denying Christ, engraver's copy after a painting by Lorenzo Pasinelli, by Ercole Procaccini The Younger

Peter Denying Christ, engraver's copy after a painting by Lorenzo Pasinelli

Ercole Procaccini The Younger · 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Plan and Elevation of Cornaro Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Plan and Elevation of Cornaro Chapel, Basilica of San Lorenzo

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan and Elevation for Cornaro Chapel, San Lorenzo Basilica, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Plan and Elevation for Cornaro Chapel, San Lorenzo Basilica

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Plan and Elevation for Chapel or Niche of San Lorenzo Basilica, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Plan and Elevation for Chapel or Niche of San Lorenzo Basilica

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Elevation of the Fonsechi Chapel in San Lorenzo, by Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680

Elevation of the Fonsechi Chapel in San Lorenzo

Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, 1598 – 1680 · ca. 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philodendron kinsingeriae Croat

Philodendron kinsingeriae Croat

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philodendron sparreorum Croat

Philodendron sparreorum Croat

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gasteranthus villosus L.E. Skog & L.P. Kvist

Gasteranthus villosus L.E. Skog & L.P. Kvist

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Philodendron subhastatum K. Krause

Philodendron subhastatum K. Krause

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Dieffenbachia nitidipetiolata Croat & Grayum

Dieffenbachia nitidipetiolata Croat & Grayum

Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 2000

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1745-1778), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Basilica of S. Lorenzo fuori le Mura, "Le Vedute di Roma" (1745-1778)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1748–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Lorenzo Thomas, by Unidentified Artist

Lorenzo Thomas

Unidentified Artist · n.d.a.

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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7781 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 22:45 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.