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. 22 shown for “Pietro da Barga” — 64 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:42 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.
Farnese Hercules, by Pietro da Barga

Farnese Hercules

Pietro da Barga · modeled ca. 1576; cast 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Figural Study, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

Figural Study

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · 1596–1669

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Jupiter, by Benvenuto Cellini

Jupiter

Benvenuto Cellini · late 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook page: Allegorical Figure, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 – 1669

Sketchbook page: Allegorical Figure

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 – 1669 · 1660–69

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neptune, by Pietro da Barga

Neptune

Pietro da Barga · ca. 1580

Public domainThe Met
Scene in the Clouds with Putto and Doves, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

Scene in the Clouds with Putto and Doves

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · ca. 1632

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Donors, by Giovanni da Milano

Madonna and Child with Donors

Giovanni da Milano · ca. 1365

Public domainThe Met
Music

Music

Artist not stated in the record · 1777

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Angels, by Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano

Madonna and Child with Angels

Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano · 1420

Public domainThe Met
CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano, by Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669

CIncinnatus Summoned from the Field, study for the "Storia di Cincinnato," Gallery of the Villa Sacchetti (Now Chigi), Castelfusano

Pietro da Cortona, Italian, 1596 - 1669 · 1626–1629

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Portrait of Pietro Angela da Barga, bust-length and in a decorative border, by Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)

Portrait of Pietro Angela da Barga, bust-length and in a decorative border

Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia) · 1570–1615

Public domainThe Met
Holy Family

Holy Family

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1650-1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas, by Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara)

Madonna and Child with the Donor, Pietro de' Lardi, Presented by Saint Nicholas

Master G.Z. (possibly Michele dai Carri, Italian, Ferrara, active by 1405–died 1441 Ferrara) · ca. 1420–30

Public domainThe Met
Emberiza aureola

Emberiza aureola

Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jun 1933

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Baptism of Christ, by Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte)

The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) · ca. 1590

Public domainThe Met
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Silver Serving Pieces, by Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828

Designs for Silver Serving Pieces

Pietro Belli, Italian, 1780–1828 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Barbute, by Pietro da Castello

Barbute

Pietro da Castello · ca. 1470–80

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
The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist, by Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi)

The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) · ca. 1524–26

Public domainThe Met
Tringa totanus ussuriensis

Tringa totanus ussuriensis

Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jun 1940

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. 428 matched · 24 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. 63114 matched · 40 examined · 5 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 2026-08-28 22:42 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.