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 “Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776” — 40 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 10:30 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.
Cardinal Pamphili Villa, Facade Decorated for a Visit of Pope Clement XIII, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Cardinal Pamphili Villa, Facade Decorated for a Visit of Pope Clement XIII

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · 1758–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Drawing

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · 1775

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Project for the Elevation of a Villa, by Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776

Project for the Elevation of a Villa

Paolo Posi, Italian, 1708 - 1776 · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
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
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mars, Venus, et l'Amour

Mars, Venus, et l'Amour

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John(?), by Paolo Farinati, Italian, born Verona Italy 1524-died Verona, Italy 1606

St. John(?)

Paolo Farinati, Italian, born Verona Italy 1524-died Verona, Italy 1606

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Drawing, by Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

Drawing

Paolo de Matteis, Italian, born Piano de Cilento, Italy 1662-died Naples, Italy 1728

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Frontispiece or Title page

Design for a Frontispiece or Title page

Artist not stated in the record · 1691–1700

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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 11607 matched · 40 examined · 4 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 10:30 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.