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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. 24 shown for “Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773” — 33 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:17 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 Church Interior, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Design for a Church Interior

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
A Standing Man, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

A Standing Man

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the high altar of the Gesù Nuovo, Naples, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Design for the high altar of the Gesù Nuovo, Naples

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Standing Figure, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Standing Figure

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Theater Interior, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Design for a Theater Interior

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
A Standing Man, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

A Standing Man

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for an Altar, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Design for an Altar

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Standing Woman, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Standing Woman

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Peter Enthroned, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Saint Peter Enthroned

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–73

Public domainThe Met
Standing Laundress, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Standing Laundress

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Detail study for the façade of Milan cathedral, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Detail study for the façade of Milan cathedral

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Figural Studies, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Figural Studies

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for a Chapel in the Church of San Ciriaco, Ancona, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Project for a Chapel in the Church of San Ciriaco, Ancona

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Seated Woman, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Seated Woman

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Longitudinal Section of the Small Theater in the Palace at Caserta, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Longitudinal Section of the Small Theater in the Palace at Caserta

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Standing Woman, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Standing Woman

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Transverse Section of the Small Theater in the Palace of Caserta with a View Towards the Royal Box, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Transverse Section of the Small Theater in the Palace of Caserta with a View Towards the Royal Box

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Leaning Man, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Leaning Man

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1700–1773

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Projection of Ceiling Over Plan of the Small Theater in the Palace at Caserta, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Projection of Ceiling Over Plan of the Small Theater in the Palace at Caserta

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Wall Decoration for a Canonization Ceremony, St. Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Elevation of a Wall Decoration for a Canonization Ceremony, St. Peter's, Rome, Italy

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · ca. 1745

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Architectural Sketch for the design of a Wall with Doorway, with two smaller sketches for the design of windows or doorways (recto); Sketches for a plan and partial perspective view of ceiling (verso), by Luigi Vanvitelli

Architectural Sketch for the design of a Wall with Doorway, with two smaller sketches for the design of windows or doorways (recto); Sketches for a plan and partial perspective view of ceiling (verso)

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–1773

Public domainThe Met
Copy of Competition Design by Vanvitelli for the Facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano, by Unknown, Italian

Copy of Competition Design by Vanvitelli for the Facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano

Unknown, Italian · 1763, after a drawing of 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Façade of Palace decorated for the Marriage of the King of Naples to the Archduchess of Austria, by Luigi Vanvitelli

Façade of Palace decorated for the Marriage of the King of Naples to the Archduchess of Austria

Luigi Vanvitelli · 1700–73

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome, by Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773

Design for a Marble Throne for the Statue of St. Peter, St. Peter's, Rome

Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian, 1700 – 1773 · 1754

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. 19 matched · 19 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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 0 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 2026-09-01 22:17 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.