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. 24 shown for “Ugolino da Siena” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-27 00:27 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 Last Supper, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

The Last Supper

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

Public domainThe Met
Ugolino in Prison (after Reynolds)

Ugolino in Prison (after Reynolds)

Artist not stated in the record · 1774

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Matthew(?), by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

Saint Matthew(?)

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · late 1320s

Public domainThe Met
Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Count Ugolino della Gherardesca with his Sons and Grandsons in Prison

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Madonna and Child, by Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio)

Madonna and Child

Ugolino da Siena (Ugolino di Nerio) · late 1310s

Public domainThe Met
Ugolino and His Sons, by Pietro Bettelini, Italian, 1763–1829

Ugolino and His Sons

Pietro Bettelini, Italian, 1763–1829 · 1814–1825

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Ugolino da Siena

The Crucifixion

Ugolino da Siena · ca. 1315–20

Public domainThe Met
Death of Count Ugolino and his Sons, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Death of Count Ugolino and his Sons

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1815–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Engaged molding on a polyptych panel, by Siena

Engaged molding on a polyptych panel

Siena · ca. 1345

Public domainThe Met
Study for "Ugolino and His Sons", by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875

Study for "Ugolino and His Sons"

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, b. Valenciennes, 1827–1875 · (1857-1860)/cast before 1921

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

Madonna and Child

Duccio di Buoninsegna · ca. 1290–1300

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Public domainThe Met
Study of Siena Cathedral, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Study of Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1872

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
Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paradise, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Paradise

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

Public domainThe Met
Study of Basin, Siena Cathedral, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Study of Basin, Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness, by Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio)

Saint Anthony the Abbot in the Wilderness

Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) · ca. 1440

Public domainThe Met
Study of Siena Cathedral, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Study of Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1872

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
Lower Part of the Choir, Siena Cathedral, by Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909

Lower Part of the Choir, Siena Cathedral

Walter Shirlaw, American, b. Scotland, 1838–1909 · ca. 1872

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Journey of the Magi, by Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni)

The Journey of the Magi

Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) · ca. 1433–35

Public domainThe Met
Drawing, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Drawing

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

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. 170 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. 61851 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 00:27 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.