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. 18 shown for “Paolo Gerolamo Piola” — 60 records examined, 34 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-01 15:40 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.
Scene with Four Figures of Monks Discoursing, by Paolo Gerolamo Piola

Scene with Four Figures of Monks Discoursing

Paolo Gerolamo Piola · 1666–1724

Public domainThe Met
The Virgin and Child with Saints, Study after Gerolamo Marchesi, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

The Virgin and Child with Saints, Study after Gerolamo Marchesi

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1810–20

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Standing Figure of Apollo with a Lyre, by Paolo Gerolamo Piola

Standing Figure of Apollo with a Lyre

Paolo Gerolamo Piola · 1666–1724

Public domainThe Met
Fountain Basin, by Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703

Fountain Basin

Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703 · 1650–75

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42), by Paolo Gerolamo Piola

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38-42)

Paolo Gerolamo Piola · ca. 1700

Public domainThe Met
Salome Receives the Head of St. John the Baptist, by Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703

Salome Receives the Head of St. John the Baptist

Domenico Piola, Italian, 1627 - 1703 · 1675–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Matthew and the Angel, by Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Saint Matthew and the Angel

Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo

Public domainThe Met
The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

The temples of Apollo and Diana built for the first day of the fireworks at SS. Peter and Paul by Paolo Posi

Artist not stated in the record · 1763

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mary Magdalen Buying Ointment, by Paolo Gerolamo Piola

Mary Magdalen Buying Ointment

Paolo Gerolamo Piola · 1666–1724

Public domainThe Met
St. Francis de Sales from St. Peter's colonnade, by Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773

St. Francis de Sales from St. Peter's colonnade

Jean-Robert Ango, French, active in Rome 1759 –1770, d. 1773 · ca. 1759–70

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair), by Vincenzo Grandi

Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair)

Vincenzo Grandi · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Paolo Belli (Blanes) (1780-1823)

Portrait of Paolo Belli (Blanes) (1780-1823)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair), by Vincenzo Grandi

Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair)

Vincenzo Grandi · mid-16th century

Public domainThe Met
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
The Battle of Vercellae, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Battle of Vercellae

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
The Triumph of Marius, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Triumph of Marius

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1729

Public domainThe Met
The Capture of Carthage, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Capture of Carthage

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1725–29

Public domainThe Met
The Entombment, by Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino)

The Entombment

Moretto da Brescia (Alessandro Bonvicino) · 1554

Public domainThe Met
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. 20 matched · 20 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. 224 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 15:40 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.