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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 “Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna” — 64 records examined, 9 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:39 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.
Manuscript Illumination with the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen in an Initial E, from a Gradual, by Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna

Manuscript Illumination with the Martyrdom of Saint Stephen in an Initial E, from a Gradual

Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna · ca. 1394–1402

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling with Balustrade

Design for a Ceiling with Balustrade

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1685

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

The Last Supper

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · 1548

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
Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé, by Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli)

Chapel from Le Château de la Bastie d'Urfé

Fra Damiano da Bergamo (Damiano di Antoniolo de Zambelli) · ca. 1547–48

Public domainThe Met
The Nativity, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Nativity

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1813–18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Samson Captured by the Philistines, by Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)

Samson Captured by the Philistines

Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri) · 1619

Public domainThe Met
Various works of art. The court of Palazzo Mattei in Rome, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Various works of art. The court of Palazzo Mattei in Rome

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1812–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Aviary, by Giuseppe Jarmorini, Italian, ca. 1732 – 1816

Aviary

Giuseppe Jarmorini, Italian, ca. 1732 – 1816 · 1775–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Porta di Saragossa in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Details, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Porta di Saragossa in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Details

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?), by Bicci di Lorenzo

Saints John the Baptist and an Evangelist (Matthew?)

Bicci di Lorenzo · 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Angels, by Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano · 1420

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
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, by Gaetano Gandolfi

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

Gaetano Gandolfi · 1789

Public domainThe Met
Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun, for the Sala di Apollo e Diana, Palazzo Bianchetti, Bologna, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun, for the Sala di Apollo e Diana, Palazzo Bianchetti, Bologna

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–23

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin, by Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni)

The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) · before 1402

Public domainThe Met
Project for a Fountain, by Giuseppe Jarmorini, Italian, ca. 1732 – 1816

Project for a Fountain

Giuseppe Jarmorini, Italian, ca. 1732 – 1816 · 1800–1810

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Finding of Moses, by Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola

The Finding of Moses

Jacopo [Giacomo] Barozzi da Vignola · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway, by Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817

Project for a painted ceiling with an antique bust in an archway

Flaminio Innocenzi Minozzi, Italian, 1735 – 1817 · 1807

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Louis of Toulouse, by Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura)

Saint Louis of Toulouse

Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1484?

Public domainThe Met
Orobanche rubens Wallr.

Orobanche rubens Wallr.

Artist not stated in the record · primavera 1882

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. 49 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. 79161 matched · 40 examined · 9 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 13:39 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.

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