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. 20 shown for “Salvatore di Franco” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-05 07:05 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.
The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group

The Centurion and Two Soldiers, from a Crucifixion Group

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1340–50

Public domainThe Met
Project for the high altar in San Salvatore in Campo in Rome, by Giuseppe Subleyras, Italian, 1745 – 1819

Project for the high altar in San Salvatore in Campo in Rome

Giuseppe Subleyras, Italian, 1745 – 1819 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curb Bit

Curb Bit

Artist not stated in the record · second quarter 14th century

Public domainThe Met
Palhinhaea cernua (L.) Vasc. & Franco

Palhinhaea cernua (L.) Vasc. & Franco

Artist not stated in the record · 19 Dec 1986

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Salvatore di Franco

Angel

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Transatlantic cover to Florence, Italy

Transatlantic cover to Florence, Italy

Artist not stated in the record · December 17, 1863

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
St. Joseph, by Salvatore di Franco

St. Joseph

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Church of San Salvatore, Venice

Church of San Salvatore, Venice

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1900–1910

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Salvatore di Franco

Angel

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Melampyrum sp.

Melampyrum sp.

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Salvatore di Franco

Angel

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Bupleurum canalense Wulfen ex Spreng.

Bupleurum canalense Wulfen ex Spreng.

Artist not stated in the record · 2 Aug 1885

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Virgin, by Salvatore di Franco

Virgin

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Viola riviniana Rchb.

Viola riviniana Rchb.

Artist not stated in the record · Apr 1917

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Angel, by Salvatore di Franco

Angel

Salvatore di Franco · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Carex humilis Leyss.

Carex humilis Leyss.

Artist not stated in the record · 18

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1445

Public domainThe Met
Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan, by Titian (Tiziano Vecellio)

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan

Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s

Public domainThe Met
The Adoration of the Magi, by Giotto di Bondone

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320

Public domainThe Met
Angel, by Giuseppe Sanmartino

Angel

Giuseppe Sanmartino · second half 18th century

Public domainThe Met
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. 396 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. 20941 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 2026-09-05 07:05 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.