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 “Marco di Paolo Veneziano” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:29 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.
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints James Minor and Lucy, by Marco di Paolo Veneziano

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints James Minor and Lucy

Marco di Paolo Veneziano

Public domainThe Met
The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

Artist not stated in the record · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Clematis rigoi W.T. Wang

Clematis rigoi W.T. Wang

Artist not stated in the record · 3 Jun 1921 to 30 Jul 1921

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coronation of the Virgin, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of Alvise Contarini(?); (verso) A Tethered Roebuck

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille, by Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano)

Portrait of a Woman, Possibly a Nun of San Secondo; (verso) Scene in Grisaille

Jacometto (Jacometto Veneziano) · ca. 1485–95

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro)

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro) · ca. 1420–23

Public domainThe Met
St. John(?), by Paolo Farinati, Italian, born Verona Italy 1524-died Verona, Italy 1606

St. John(?)

Paolo Farinati, Italian, born Verona Italy 1524-died Verona, Italy 1606

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ambrose, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Saint Ambrose

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1465–70

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca), by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Fountain used by Paolo Emilio Barberi (1777-?) as Competition Entry in the 1795 Concorso Clementino, Rome (Accademia di San Luca)

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1795

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road, by Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino)

Approach to a Mountain Village with Horsemen on the Road

Fra Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo di Paolo del Fattorino) · ca. 1501

Public domainThe Met
Porta San Paulo, Rome, by Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934

Porta San Paulo, Rome

Cass Gilbert, born Zanesville, OH 1858-died Brockenhurst, England 1934 · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Birth of the Virgin, by Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini)

The Birth of the Virgin

Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini) · 1467

Public domainThe Met
Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P. Beauv.

Brachypodium distachyon (L.) P. Beauv.

Artist not stated in the record

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

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
A North West View of St Pauls Cathedral London, by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

A North West View of St Pauls Cathedral London

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

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. 105 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. 24301 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 13:29 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.