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. 17 shown for “Marcus Pollio Vitruvius” — 64 records examined, 35 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:57 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1556

Proportional study of a church façade
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–75
M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1511

Design for a Painted Ceiling of Irregular Shape: Aurora
Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817 · 1790–1810

M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1511

Marcus Alonzo Hanna
Jacques Reich, 10 Aug 1852 - 8 Jul 1923 · 1904

M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1511
Marcus Loew
Henry Major, 1889 - 1948 · c. 1925-30

Vitruvius iterum et Frontinus à Iocundo revisi repurgatique quantum ex collatione licvit
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1513

Marcus Daly
Adolfo Müller-Ury, 29 Mar 1862 - 7 Jul 1947 · c. 1897

Architecture, ou, Art de bien bastir de Marc Vitruve Pollion, autheur romain antique; mis de latin en francoys par Ian Martin
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1547

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1556

I dieci libri dell'architettura di M. Vitruvio tradutti et commentati da monsignor Barbaro eletto patriarca d'aquileggia
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1556

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De architectura Libri Dece traducti de latino in vulgare affigurati: commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1521
Vitruvius Des aller namhafftigiften unnd Hocherfarnesten Römischen Architecti unnd Kunstreichen Werck oder Bawmeysters Marci Vitruvij Pollionis Zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1614

De Architectura
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1400–50

Di Lucio Vitruvio Pollione De architectura Libri Dece traducti de latino in vulgare affigurati: commentati: & con mirando ordine insigniti
Marcus Pollio Vitruvius · 1521
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. 27 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. 13095 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:57 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.