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. 23 shown for “Niccolò della Casa” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 23:20 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 Cosimo de' Medici in full armor, his left hand resting on a staff, by Niccolò della Casa

Portrait of Cosimo de' Medici in full armor, his left hand resting on a staff

Niccolò della Casa · 1544

Public domainThe Met
View of Florence with the Cathedral, S. Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Plate 4 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Florence with the Cathedral, S. Croce, Palazzo Vecchio, Plate 4 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
Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment), by Niccolò della Casa

Resurrection of the Dead (lower left section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa · 1548

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere, by Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620

Design for a Tondo with Arms of Cardinal Giulio della Rovere

Niccolò Martinelli, called il Trometta, Italian, 1565 – 1620 · 1566–78

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli, in three-quarter length next to a window pane containing a statuette and statuette fragments, the artist grasps with his right hand the head of a statuette resting at his left side, by Niccolò della Casa

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli, in three-quarter length next to a window pane containing a statuette and statuette fragments, the artist grasps with his right hand the head of a statuette resting at his left side

Niccolò della Casa · ca. 1540–48

Public domainThe Met
Lathyrus saxatilis (Vent.) Vis.

Lathyrus saxatilis (Vent.) Vis.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angels Carrying the Cross with Saints below (upper left section of the Last Judgment), by Niccolò della Casa

Angels Carrying the Cross with Saints below (upper left section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa · 1548

Public domainThe Met
Lathyrus saxatilis (Vent.) Vis.

Lathyrus saxatilis (Vent.) Vis.

Artist not stated in the record · 27 May 1842

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angels Carrying Pillar with Saints Below (upper right section of the Last Judgment), by Niccolò della Casa

Angels Carrying Pillar with Saints Below (upper right section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa · 1548

Public domainThe Met
A View of Somerset House with S. Marys Church, London, by Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

A View of Somerset House with S. Marys Church, London

Georg Balthasar Probst, German, 1732 - 1801

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Lamentation

The Lamentation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ as Judge Surrounded by Saints (upper central section of the Last Judgment), by Niccolò della Casa

Christ as Judge Surrounded by Saints (upper central section of the Last Judgment)

Niccolò della Casa · 1548

Public domainThe Met
The Ascension of Mary Magdalene

The Ascension of Mary Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli, by Niccolò della Casa

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli

Niccolò della Casa · ca. 1544–47

Public domainThe Met
Monument Designs, by François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777

Monument Designs

François de Cuvilliés the younger, German, 1731 - 1777 · 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Coronation of the Virgin, by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

The Coronation of the Virgin

Niccolò di Buonaccorso · ca. 1380

Public domainThe Met
Recto: Three Musicians in Front of the Albergo Della Pace, 1810, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Recto: Three Musicians in Front of the Albergo Della Pace, 1810

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bookcase (one of a pair), by Niccolo Michetti

Bookcase (one of a pair)

Niccolo Michetti · ca. 1715

Public domainThe Met
View of Palazzio Vecchio, Loggia, and Pizza on Occation of Fête in homage to St. John the Baptist, Plate 23 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Palazzio Vecchio, Loggia, and Pizza on Occation of Fête in homage to St. John the Baptist, Plate 23 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

Artist not stated in the record · 1744

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli with Lion, by Anonymous, 16th century

Portrait of Baccio Bandinelli with Lion

Anonymous, 16th century · 1548

Public domainThe Met
Prà della Valle (Prato della Valle, Padua), from the Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate

Prà della Valle (Prato della Valle, Padua), from the Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1752-55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anne and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels, by Niccolò Alunno (Niccolò di Liberatore)

Saint Anne and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels

Niccolò Alunno (Niccolò di Liberatore) · ca. 1458–61

Public domainThe Met
View of the Northeastern Quarter of Florence, North of the Arno, Plate 3 from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of the Northeastern Quarter of Florence, North of the Arno, Plate 3 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
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. 210 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. 10641 matched · 40 examined · 11 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 2026-08-29 23:20 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.