OpenTwo 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. 24 shown for “Scenes from Roman history” — 64 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 02:48 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scenes from Roman history
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1815–25
Ornamental Vignette
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Tarquinius Rapes Lucretia, from Scenes from Roman History
Georg Pencz
Stand for a Bowl, from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")
Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820
Marble statue of Pan or a satyr with winnowing basket filled with offerings and cultic objects
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2nd century CE
Scene of Roman Soldiers
Artist not stated in the record · 1775–1800
Wall painting on black ground: Egyptianizing scene and pair of swans, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE
Char de Mars
Jean François Blondel, French, 1681–1756 · 1751
Marble statue of Eirene (the personification of peace)
Kephisodotos · ca. 14–68 CE
Plates 3, 4, and 5, Illustrations for "Roman Military Punishment" by John Beaver
Artist not stated in the record · 1725-1794
A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo (Piero di Lorenzo di Piero d'Antonio) · ca. 1494–1500
Alcove with Jupiter Appearing to Semele in all his Glory
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1658–1703
Wall painting: Perseus and Andromeda in landscape, from the imperial villa at Boscotrecase
Artist not stated in the record · last decade of the 1st century BCE
Alcove with Apollo Kissing Leucothoe
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1658–1703
Couch and footstool with bone carvings and glass inlays
Artist not stated in the record · 1st–2nd century CE
Alcove with Aegeus Preventing Theseus from Drinking Poison
Jean Le Pautre, French, 1618–1682 · 1658–1703
Glass gladiator cup
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–80 CE
Design for Ceiling Decoration, a Barrel Vault
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1790–1800
Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 260–270 CE
Study for a Painting and Figure in a Canoe, Mexico
Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · probably December 1883
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE
Clock
Jeremias Sautter, 1683 – 1708 · ca. 1700
Wall painting from Room H of the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 50–40 BCE
Pleated fan
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
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. 2299 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. 1156342 matched · 40 examined · 13 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 2026-09-01 02:48 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.