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 “Master of the Castello Nativity” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:40 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.
Portrait of a Woman, by Master of the Castello Nativity

Portrait of a Woman

Master of the Castello Nativity · probably 1450s

Public domainThe Met
Del Castello dell'Aqua Giulia, plate IV from "Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia (The Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Aqua Giulia), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778

Del Castello dell'Aqua Giulia, plate IV from "Le Rovine del Castello dell’Acqua Giulia (The Ruins of the Fountainhead of the Aqua Giulia)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian, 1720–1778 · 1761

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, by Master of the Dinteville Allegory

Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family

Master of the Dinteville Allegory · 1537

Public domainThe Met
Aeonium castello-paivae Bolle

Aeonium castello-paivae Bolle

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 30/9/65

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Dominic in Penitence, by Filippo Tarchiani

Saint Dominic in Penitence

Filippo Tarchiani · ca. 1607

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello, by Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822

Project for a Fresco in the Dome of the Cathedral in Citta di Castello

Tommaso Maria Conca, Italian, 1734 – 1822 · 1789–90

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation, by Master of the Orléans Triptych

Triptych with the Nativity and the Annunciation

Master of the Orléans Triptych · late 19th–early 20th century

Public domainThe Met
Aeonium castello-paivae Bolle

Aeonium castello-paivae Bolle

Artist not stated in the record · 1951

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 11 Mar 1943

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition), by Tilman Heysacker

The Death of the Virgin (The Dormition)

Tilman Heysacker · late 15th century

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Mar 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nativity, by Master IQV

Nativity

Master IQV · ca. 1543

Public domainThe Met
View of S. Ferdinando in Castello and the Quarter Around and Beyond S. Spirito, Plate 5 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of S. Ferdinando in Castello and the Quarter Around and Beyond S. Spirito, Plate 5 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1743

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nativity, by Alsatian Master

Nativity

Alsatian Master · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 26 Feb 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity and Circumcision of Christ, by Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads

The Nativity and Circumcision of Christ

Workshop of the Master of the High Foreheads · probably early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity, by Master of the Dominican Effigies

The Last Judgment; The Virgin and Child with a Bishop-Saint and Saint Peter Martyr; The Crucifixion; The Glorification of Saint Thomas Aquinas; The Nativity

Master of the Dominican Effigies · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Mar 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Christ Child, by Master of Frankfurt

The Adoration of the Christ Child

Master of Frankfurt · possibly 1496–1502

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 21 Feb 1942

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Nativity, by Puccio di Simone

The Nativity

Puccio di Simone · ca. 1350

Public domainThe Met
Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Potamotrygon yepezi Castex & Castello

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Mar 1942

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. 588 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2986834 matched · 40 examined · 26 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 2026-08-26 22:40 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.