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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. 24 shown for “Sebastiano Serlio” — 54 records examined, 5 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 18:57 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.
Bononiensis de architectura libri quinque quibus cuncta fere architectonicae facultatis mysteria docte, perspicue . . ., by Sebastiano Serlio

Bononiensis de architectura libri quinque quibus cuncta fere architectonicae facultatis mysteria docte, perspicue . . .

Sebastiano Serlio · 1568–69

Public domainThe Met
Lunette with St. Peter and St.Paul with St. Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette with St. Peter and St.Paul with St. Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Il terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio (Bolognese), by Sebastiano Serlio

Il terzo libro di Sebastiano Serlio (Bolognese)

Sebastiano Serlio · 1540

Public domainThe Met
Campanula elatines L.

Campanula elatines L.

Artist not stated in the record · Aug 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Jabach Family, by Charles Le Brun

The Jabach Family

Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Public domainThe Met
Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Lunette with Saints Peter and Paul, Matthew and the Prophet Isaiah, Study after Sebastiano del Piombo

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1821–22

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Corinthian base, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae", by Sebastiano Serlio

Corinthian base, from "Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae"

Sebastiano Serlio · 1544

Public domainThe Met
Cedrela tonduzii C. DC.

Cedrela tonduzii C. DC.

Artist not stated in the record · 1922

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Compendium of Architectural Books by Sebastiano Serlio (Books I-V), by Sebastiano Serlio

Compendium of Architectural Books by Sebastiano Serlio (Books I-V)

Sebastiano Serlio · 1544, 1545, 1547

Public domainThe Met
Pernettya prostrata (Cav.) DC.

Pernettya prostrata (Cav.) DC.

Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1937

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Il primo libro d'architettura di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese. Il secondo libro di perspecttia di Sebastiano Serlio, Bolognese., by Sebastiano Serlio

Il primo libro d'architettura di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese. Il secondo libro di perspecttia di Sebastiano Serlio, Bolognese.

Sebastiano Serlio · 1545

Public domainThe Met
The Banquet of Cleopatra, by Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian, born Florence, Italy ca.1611-died Venice, Italy ca.1678

The Banquet of Cleopatra

Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian, born Florence, Italy ca.1611-died Venice, Italy ca.1678 · 1660

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tutte l'opere d'architettura, by Sebastiano Serlio

Tutte l'opere d'architettura

Sebastiano Serlio · 1584

Public domainThe Met
Vignette, Trophy of Turkish Arms, by Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764

Vignette, Trophy of Turkish Arms

Sebastiano Conca, Italian, 1680 - 1764 · ca. 1720

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Libro primo (-quinto, estraordinario) d'architettura, by Sebastiano Serlio

Libro primo (-quinto, estraordinario) d'architettura

Sebastiano Serlio · 1566

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Buckle, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for a Buckle

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Il terzo libro di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese, by Sebastiano Serlio

Il terzo libro di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese

Sebastiano Serlio · 1540

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna With Sleeping Child, by John Boydell, British, 1719 – 1804

The Madonna With Sleeping Child

John Boydell, British, 1719 – 1804 · 1781

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Serlio's five books on architecture, by Sebastiano Serlio

Serlio's five books on architecture

Sebastiano Serlio · 1550, 1553

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Earring, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for an Earring

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1755

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Reigles generales de l'architecture, sur les cincq manieres d'edifices, by Sebastiano Serlio

Reigles generales de l'architecture, sur les cincq manieres d'edifices

Sebastiano Serlio · 1545

Public domainThe Met
Designs for Three Brooches, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Designs for Three Brooches

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen, by Sebastiano Serlio

Den eersten (-vijfsten) boeck van architecturen

Sebastiano Serlio · 1546, 1549, 1553

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Brooch, by Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794

Design for a Brooch

Giovanni Sebastiano Meyandi, Italian, active 1762 - 1794 · ca. 1765

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. 17 matched · 17 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. 37 matched · 37 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 2026-08-27 18:57 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.