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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 “Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ” — 64 records examined, 6 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 22:40 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.
Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ

Tabernacle Polyptych with the Madonna and Child and Scenes from the Life of Christ

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1275–1300

Public domainThe Met
Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennita`, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (Alfonso Isachi's account of the origin, solemnity, translatione[?], and miracles of the Madonna of Reggio), by Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Italian, ca. 1583 - 1633

Frontispiece: Relatione di Alfonso Isachi intorno l'origine, solennita`, traslatione, et miracoli della Madonna di Reggio (Alfonso Isachi's account of the origin, solemnity, translatione[?], and miracles of the Madonna of Reggio)

Giovanni Luigi Valesio, Italian, ca. 1583 - 1633 · 1619

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Madonna and Child with Saints

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1454

Public domainThe Met
A Tomb Monument, by Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742

A Tomb Monument

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, French, 1672–1742 · 1692–99

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Simone Martini

Madonna and Child

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
Design for Crèche (Nativity Scene)

Design for Crèche (Nativity Scene)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Carlo Crivelli

Madonna and Child

Carlo Crivelli · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640

Madonna and Child

Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, born Siegen, Germany 1577-died Antwerp, Belgium 1640 · ca. 1615-1618

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Duccio di Buoninsegna

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Adoration of the Shepherds, by Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605

Adoration of the Shepherds

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605 · ca. 1585 – 1605

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura)

Madonna and Child

Luca Signorelli (Luca d'Egidio di Luca di Ventura) · ca. 1505–7

Public domainThe Met
Female Figure Among Clouds; Resurrection, Study after Panetti, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Female Figure Among Clouds; Resurrection, Study after Panetti

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

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John, by Hendrick ter Brugghen

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen · ca. 1624–25

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child with an Angel, by Giovanni Marco Paluzzi, Italian, 1655-1690

Madonna and Child with an Angel

Giovanni Marco Paluzzi, Italian, 1655-1690 · late 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
The Madonna and Child

The Madonna and Child

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tabernacle of Cherves

Tabernacle of Cherves

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1220–1230

Public domainThe Met
Madonna and Child, by Egisto Rossi, Italian, 1824 or 1825–1899

Madonna and Child

Egisto Rossi, Italian, 1824 or 1825–1899 · 1830–60

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Vincenzo Foppa

Madonna and Child

Vincenzo Foppa · ca. 1480

Public domainThe Met
Sheet 15 of a Drawing Book, Group of the Madonna of the Rosary, by Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804

Sheet 15 of a Drawing Book, Group of the Madonna of the Rosary

Carlo Maria Giudici, Italian, 1723 - 1804 · 1780–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Berlinghiero

Madonna and Child

Berlinghiero · possibly 1230s

Public domainThe Met
Dress for an ecclesiastical figurine

Dress for an ecclesiastical figurine

Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Filippino Lippi

Madonna and Child

Filippino Lippi · ca. 1483–84

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Tabernacle, by Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809

Design for a Tabernacle

Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1746-1809

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. 927 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 3300301 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 22:40 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.

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Section 01Character index6 hand-compiled entries, each with sources, version scope, and a confidence value.Section 02NewsWhat has already cleared the US term, and what clears next — January 1, 2027.Section 03MethodThree status values, three confidence values, and copyright kept apart from trademark.