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. 19 shown for “The Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to Saint Clare” — 64 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-04 01:37 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 Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to Saint Clare

The Bishop of Assisi Giving a Palm to Saint Clare

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1360

Public domainThe Met
Bishop with a Group of People

Bishop with a Group of People

Artist not stated in the record · 1650–80

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Francis of Assisi, by Antoniazzo Romano (Antonio di Benedetto Aquilio)

Saint Francis of Assisi

Antoniazzo Romano (Antonio di Benedetto Aquilio) · ca. 1480–81

Public domainThe Met
Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child, by Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789

Design for an Altar Painting, Saint Dominic and Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Rosary from the Virgin and Child

Fedele Fischetti, Italian, 1734 - 1789 · 1760–89

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, by Pietro Lorenzetti

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Pietro Lorenzetti · ca. 1342

Public domainThe Met
Madonna of the Palm Tree

Madonna of the Palm Tree

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1520

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
A bishop saint pointing to a model city, with other figures, after a drawing by Guercino

A bishop saint pointing to a model city, with other figures, after a drawing by Guercino

Artist not stated in the record · 1764

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare, by Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima)

Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Clare

Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima) · ca. 1510

Public domainThe Met
Saint John the Baptist, A Saint Bishop (Porbably One of the Doctors), and Two Devouts, by Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863

Saint John the Baptist, A Saint Bishop (Porbably One of the Doctors), and Two Devouts

Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Communion of Saint Jerome, by Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi)

The Last Communion of Saint Jerome

Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) · early 1490s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Ceiling: A Bishop Saint in Glory

Design for a Ceiling: A Bishop Saint in Glory

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1830

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · ca. 1325

Public domainThe Met
Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France, by Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909

Study of "Altarpiece of Saint-Germer-de-fly," Paris, France

Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849–1909 · ca. 1870

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ansanus, by Simone Martini

Saint Ansanus

Simone Martini · ca. 1326

Public domainThe Met
The Agony in the Garden, by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)

The Agony in the Garden

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1504

Public domainThe Met
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

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
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
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. 112 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. 4211687 matched · 40 examined · 33 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.7 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-04 01:37 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.