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 “Paolo Farinati” — 19 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 18:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Sleeping Cupid
Paolo Farinati · ca. 1560–1606

Cupid and Apollo with a lyre
Paolo Farinati · ca. 1568

Project for the Decoration of a Spandrel: Winged Female Figure Holding a Tablet and a Crown
Paolo Farinati · 1524–1606

Seated, Bearded Man Holding a Banderole
Paolo Farinati · 1524–1606

A Man Resting on a Staff
Paolo Farinati · n.d.

Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Paul
Paolo Farinati · 1524–1606

Seated Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and a lamb on a hillside
Orazio Farinati · 1580–1616

Venus and Cupid in the Clouds
Giovanni Paolo Cimerlino · 1568

The Crossing of the Red Sea
Orazio Farinati · 1583

Christ healing the sick
Anonymous · 1566

Saint Helen finding the true cross
Jerôme David · 1625–47

Oeuvres, Vols. I-IV
Jean Le Pautre · 17th century
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. 19 matched · 19 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 18:34 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.