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. 12 shown for “Niccolò di Buonaccorso” — 40 records examined, 19 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 19:59 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.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

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
The Lamentation

The Lamentation

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Ascension of Mary Magdalene

The Ascension of Mary Magdalene

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville, by Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766

Décoration de la Façade du Feu d’Artifice du Côté de L’Hotel de Ville

Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian, active in France, 1695 – 1766 · 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
DÉCORATION DU SALON COMPOSÉ DE TRANSPARENTS. Qui a eté élevé sur deux batteaux placés sur la Seine le 29 Aoust 1739, jour de l’illumination et des Feux d’Artifice ordonnez par Monsieur Turgot Prevôt des Marchand et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris, Exécutée sur les desseins du Chevalier Servandony, et rempli par les Musiciens qui ont Conserté devant leurs Majestez, aussitost qu’elle ont été placées sur le Trône qui leur avoit été dressé au pavillon du Jardin de l’Infante, vis-à-vis..., by François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754

DÉCORATION DU SALON COMPOSÉ DE TRANSPARENTS. Qui a eté élevé sur deux batteaux placés sur la Seine le 29 Aoust 1739, jour de l’illumination et des Feux d’Artifice ordonnez par Monsieur Turgot Prevôt des Marchand et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris, Exécutée sur les desseins du Chevalier Servandony, et rempli par les Musiciens qui ont Conserté devant leurs Majestez, aussitost qu’elle ont été placées sur le Trône qui leur avoit été dressé au pavillon du Jardin de l’Infante, vis-à-vis...

François Baillieul, French, 1697? – 1754 · after 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy., by Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774

DECORATION EXTERIEURE DE L’EDIFICE DU CÔTÉ DE LA RIVIERE ELEVÉ AU MOIS D’AOUST 1739. Sur la Terrasse ou est placée la Statüe Equestre de Henry IV au Pont Neuf, a l’occasion du mariage de Madame de France et de Dom Philippe II Infant d’Espagne Sous les ordres de Monsieur Turgot Conseiller d’Etat, Prevost des Marchands et Messieurs les Echevins de la Ville de Paris. Sur les Desseins et Conduitte du Chevalier Servandony Architecte et Peintre du Roy.

Jacques-François Blondel, French, 1705–1774 · after 1739

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Candlestick, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Candlestick

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1780–1785

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
View of Florence, Plate from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Florence, Plate 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
View of Florence, Plate from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Florence, Plate 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
View of Florence, Plate from "Scelta di XXIV Vedute delle principali contrade, piazze, chiese, e palazzi della Città di Firenze"

View of Florence, Plate 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. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 17370 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 2026-08-26 19:59 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.