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 “Raccolta di teste” — 24 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 18:16 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Chalcedony scaraboid
Epimenes · ca. 500 BCE

Bearded man wearing a turban, depicted in bust length from behind in three-quarters view, from "Collection of heads" (Raccolta di teste)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770

Man in a turban, depicted in bust length format from behind in three-quarters view, from "Collection of heads" (Raccolta di teste)
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770

Caricature of a Gentleman and Other Studies
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1727–1804

Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti raccolta per Ascanio Condivi da la Ripa Transone
Ascanio Condivi · 1553

Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome, Bernardino, John the Baptist, and Anthony of Padua and Two Angels
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1465–70

The Conversion of Saint Paul
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Totila before Saint Benedict
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Saint Peter and Simon Magus
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Saint Zenobius Resuscitating a Dead Child
Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Cherubim
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Saint Louis of Toulouse
Cosmè Tura (Cosimo di Domenico di Bonaventura) · 1484?
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. 229 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 18:16 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.