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 “Mauro Antonio Tesi” — 64 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 01:21 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.
Design for an Altar Erected for the Holy Week, by Mauro Antonio Tesi

Design for an Altar Erected for the Holy Week

Mauro Antonio Tesi · 1750–66

Public domainThe Met
Frieze and Masks

Frieze and Masks

Artist not stated in the record · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Study for the Decoration of a Vault (recto); Faint Sketches of Ornamental Patterns (verso), by Mauro Antonio Tesi

Study for the Decoration of a Vault (recto); Faint Sketches of Ornamental Patterns (verso)

Mauro Antonio Tesi · mid-18th century

Public domainThe Met
Vases, from Le Blanc 4.

Vases, from Le Blanc 4.

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for the Left Half of an Altar, by Mauro Antonio Tesi

Design for the Left Half of an Altar

Mauro Antonio Tesi · 1750–66

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall

Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Left Half Design for an Architectural Project, by Mauro Antonio Tesi

Left Half Design for an Architectural Project

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Ceiling, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Project for a Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
One Quarter Design for a Painted Ceiling, by Mauro Antonio Tesi

One Quarter Design for a Painted Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi · 1730–66

Public domainThe Met
Design for a frieze with a dragon, by Carlo Bianconi, Italian, 1732–1802

Design for a frieze with a dragon

Carlo Bianconi, Italian, 1732–1802 · mid- 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Façade and Ruins, by Mauro Antonio Tesi

Façade and Ruins

Mauro Antonio Tesi · 1750–66

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style

Stage Design, Sepulchral Building in Egyptian Style

Artist not stated in the record · after 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of a Young Man, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Portrait of a Young Man

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) · ca. 1470

Public domainThe Met
Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1760

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ Crowned with Thorns, by Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio)

Public domainThe Met
Medallion Portrait of Mauro Tesi, Surrounded by Architectural Ornaments, Frontispiece to the "Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Mauro Tesi...", by Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, Italian, 1739 - 1821

Medallion Portrait of Mauro Tesi, Surrounded by Architectural Ornaments, Frontispiece to the "Raccolta Di Disegni Originali Di Mauro Tesi..."

Count Cesare Massimiliano Gini, Italian, 1739 - 1821 · 1787

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape, by Antonio Mauro II

Perspective Design for a Stage Set of an Italian Cityscape

Antonio Mauro II · 1784–97

Public domainThe Met
Elevations of a Door, Door Frame, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Elevations of a Door, Door Frame, Overdoor, and Adjoining Wall Panel

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Island of San Michele, Venice, by Francesco Guardi

The Island of San Michele, Venice

Francesco Guardi · 1770s

Public domainThe Met
Design for Frieze Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions

Design for Frieze Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions

Artist not stated in the record · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucified Christ, by Pietro da Rimini

The Crucified Christ

Pietro da Rimini

Public domainThe Met
Elevation of a Catafalque for a General, by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Elevation of a Catafalque for a General

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · 1700–1750

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
Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design), by Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766

Ornament, plate 22 from the "Frammenti di ornati per li giovani principianti nel disegno" (Fragments of Ornament for the Young Students of Design)

Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian, 1730 - 1766 · 1783

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. 66 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. 37038 matched · 40 examined · 19 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 2026-09-02 01:21 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.