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. 13 shown for “Pietro Torrigiano” — 45 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:56 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.
Portrait Bust of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, by Pietro Torrigiano

Portrait Bust of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester

Pietro Torrigiano · 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page: Atrium, San Pietro, Bologna and Detail from San Pietro; Detail from S. Michele in Bosco; Verso, Geometrical Studies of Heads, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page: Atrium, San Pietro, Bologna and Detail from San Pietro; Detail from S. Michele in Bosco; Verso, Geometrical Studies of Heads

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchant, by Pietro Torrigiano

An unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchant

Pietro Torrigiano · ca. 1510–15

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)

Artist not stated in the record · 1517–1520

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Design for a Candlestick, by Pietro Torrigiano

Design for a Candlestick

Pietro Torrigiano · 1472–1528

Public domainThe Met
Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Henry VII, by Pietro Torrigiano

Henry VII

Pietro Torrigiano · late 19th century

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

Portrait of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. John the Evangelist, by John Flaxman

St. John the Evangelist

John Flaxman · ca. 1811

Public domainThe Met
Nude woman leaping, by Pietro Montana, b. 1890

Nude woman leaping

Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Recto: Caricature sketches; verso: standing nude female, by Pietro Montana, b. 1890

Recto: Caricature sketches; verso: standing nude female

Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · ca. 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Head of a Roman matron (rendering from a plaster cast), by Pietro Montana, b. 1890

Head of a Roman matron (rendering from a plaster cast)

Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · March 1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Bust of a Roman Senator (rendering from a plaster cast), by Pietro Montana, b. 1890

Bust of a Roman Senator (rendering from a plaster cast)

Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · April 1910

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. 5 matched · 5 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 932 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-28 06:56 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.