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
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Portrait Bust of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester
Pietro Torrigiano · 1510–15

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

An unknown man, perhaps a Florentine merchant
Pietro Torrigiano · ca. 1510–15

Portrait of Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)
Artist not stated in the record · 1517–1520

Design for a Candlestick
Pietro Torrigiano · 1472–1528

Wall Panel Decoration with Grotesque Motifs
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Henry VII
Pietro Torrigiano · late 19th century

Portrait of Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1820

St. John the Evangelist
John Flaxman · ca. 1811

Nude woman leaping
Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · ca. 1910

Recto: Caricature sketches; verso: standing nude female
Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · ca. 1910

Head of a Roman matron (rendering from a plaster cast)
Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · March 1910

Bust of a Roman Senator (rendering from a plaster cast)
Pietro Montana, b. 1890 · April 1910
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.