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. 19 shown for “Matteo Torelli, Italian” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 12:57 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.
Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Spring in the guise of Flora (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument, by Matteo Torelli, Italian

Elevation of a Sepulcher Monument

Matteo Torelli, Italian · 1822

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany, by Giambologna

Francesco I de' Medici, grand duke of Tuscany

Giambologna · modeled 1585–87, cast ca. 1611

Public domainThe Met
Gammarus torelli

Gammarus torelli

Artist not stated in the record · 28 Sep 1950

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sprite, by Donatello

Sprite

Donatello · 1432

Public domainThe Met
Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani, by Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667

Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani

Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667 · 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Chair (Sgabello), by Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497)

Chair (Sgabello)

Workshop of Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) and Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) · ca. 1489–91

Public domainThe Met
Osmunda torelli Heer

Osmunda torelli Heer

Artist not stated in the record · 1874

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair), by Pietro Bernini

Autumn in the Guise of Priapus (one of a pair)

Pietro Bernini · 1616–17

Public domainThe Met
Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665), by Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667

Catafalque of the Bolognese Artist Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665)

Matteo Borboni, Italian, ca. 1610 – 1667 · 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal', by Israel Silvestre

Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal'

Israel Silvestre · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Diplodonta torelli aleutica

Diplodonta torelli aleutica

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal', by Israel Silvestre

Design for a theater set created by Giacomo Torelli da Fano for the ballet 'Les Noces de Thétis', from 'Décorations et machines aprestées aux nopces de Tétis, Ballet Royal'

Israel Silvestre · 1654

Public domainThe Met
Standing Cloaked Male Figure, by Matteo Rosselli, Italian, 1578–1650

Standing Cloaked Male Figure

Matteo Rosselli, Italian, 1578–1650 · 1610–30

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Ehrharta erecta Lam.

Ehrharta erecta Lam.

Artist not stated in the record · 29 May 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Melloni Bench, by Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel

Melloni Bench

Ruhmkorff, Heinrich Daniel · early 1840s

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bastardiastrum incanum (Brandegee) D.M. Bates

Bastardiastrum incanum (Brandegee) D.M. Bates

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Jan 1968

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marsilea polycarpa Hook. & Grev.

Marsilea polycarpa Hook. & Grev.

Artist not stated in the record · 20 May 1944

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Decorative Vase, by Unknown

Design for a Decorative Vase

Unknown · 1750–1800

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. 534 matched · 24 examined · 17 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.7 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 6318 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-03 12:57 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.