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. 24 shown for “Madonna with Eight Saints” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 00:12 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.
Madonna with Eight Saints

Madonna with Eight Saints

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1600

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child and St. John, Study after Francia; Madonna and Child with St. John, Study after Dossi; Madonna and Child with St. John, Bishop Saint, St. Appolonia; Madonna and Child in Niche, Study after Sculpture by Salvator Mundy, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna and Child and St. John, Study after Francia; Madonna and Child with St. John, Study after Dossi; Madonna and Child with St. John, Bishop Saint, St. Appolonia; Madonna and Child in Niche, Study after Sculpture by Salvator Mundy

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Study after Panetti or Costa, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints; Study after Panetti or Costa

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Madonna and Child

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1895

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Madonna enthroned with saints, by Denys Calvaert, Flemish, 1540 - 1619

Madonna enthroned with saints

Denys Calvaert, Flemish, 1540 - 1619 · 1580

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Madonna with Saints

Madonna with Saints

Artist not stated in the record · 1815–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes, by Donato de' Bardi

Madonna and Child with Saints Philip and Agnes

Donato de' Bardi · ca. 1425–30

Public domainThe Met
Madonna Enthroned, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Madonna Enthroned

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Saints, by Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764

Madonna and Saints

Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764 · ca. 1730

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child with Saints, Study after Gerolamo Marchesi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Virgin and Child with Saints, Study after Gerolamo Marchesi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Taddeo Gaddi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Taddeo Gaddi · ca. 1340, updated ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Design for Stained Glass Window

Design for Stained Glass Window

Artist not stated in the record · 1866

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child

Giovanni Bellini · late 1480s

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy, by Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680

Design for the Base of the Silver Crucifix for the High Altar of Saint Peter's, Rome, Italy

Carlo Spagna, Italian, ca. 1641 - 1680 · 1670–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Berlinghiero

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Public domainThe Met
Cope, hood and orphrey

Cope, hood and orphrey

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels, by Fra Filippo Lippi

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels

Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Madonna Appearing to Saint, by Rodriguez

Madonna Appearing to Saint

Rodriguez · ca. 1650–60

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. 840 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. 290907 matched · 40 examined · 6 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 2026-09-05 00:12 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.