OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
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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 “Unknown, Italian” — 64 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-28 02:27 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.
Calvary, by Unknown

Calvary

Unknown · ca. 1790

Public domainThe Met
Plan of the Casino and Gardens of Giovenazzo, by Unknown, Italian

Plan of the Casino and Gardens of Giovenazzo

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Veduta del Rio di Torcello, by Unknown

Veduta del Rio di Torcello

Unknown · 1870s

Public domainThe Met
Proscenium and Plan for a Stage, by Unknown, Italian

Proscenium and Plan for a Stage

Unknown, Italian · 1725–50

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Castellamarre, Panorama, by Unknown

Castellamarre, Panorama

Unknown · ca. 1870

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Lantern on a Gondola, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Lantern on a Gondola

Unknown, Italian · mid-18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Fräulein Maffei, by Unknown

Fräulein Maffei

Unknown · 1860s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Painted Porcelain Soup Plate

Design for a Painted Porcelain Soup Plate

Artist not stated in the record · 1787–1800

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Benediction of the Pope on Easter Sunday, by Unknown

Benediction of the Pope on Easter Sunday

Unknown · 1880s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Sepulchral Monument, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Sepulchral Monument

Unknown, Italian · 1620-1630

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Studio Portrait: Man Carrying Shovel and Basket of Greens], by Unknown

[Studio Portrait: Man Carrying Shovel and Basket of Greens]

Unknown · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Design for the Cresting on the Back of a Coach

Design for the Cresting on the Back of a Coach

Artist not stated in the record · 1833–40

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Studio Portrait: Man Wearing Carnival Mask, Venice], by Unknown

[Studio Portrait: Man Wearing Carnival Mask, Venice]

Unknown · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Domed Classical Temple with Portico, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Domed Classical Temple with Portico

Unknown, Italian · ca. 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
[Studio Portrait: Man Holding Basket of Oysters?, Venice], by Unknown

[Studio Portrait: Man Holding Basket of Oysters?, Venice]

Unknown · 1860s–70s

Public domainThe Met
The Rear View of a Mansion, by Unknown, Italian

The Rear View of a Mansion

Unknown, Italian · 1550-1600

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Italian Woman, by Amedeo Modigliani

The Italian Woman

Amedeo Modigliani · ca. 1918–19

Public domainThe Met
Copy of Competition Design by Vanvitelli for the Facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano, by Unknown, Italian

Copy of Competition Design by Vanvitelli for the Facade of S. Giovanni in Laterano

Unknown, Italian · 1763, after a drawing of 1732

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Crucifixion, by Master of the Codex of Saint George

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George · ca. 1330–35

Public domainThe Met
Three Designs for Embroidery Scissors, by Unknown, Italian

Three Designs for Embroidery Scissors

Unknown, Italian · early–mid-19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Mantel

Mantel

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1825–30

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design: Palace Architecture, by Unknown, Italian

Stage Design: Palace Architecture

Unknown, Italian · 1700–1750

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, by Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano)

Paolo Giordano II Orsini, Duke of Bracciano

Johann Jakob Kornmann (called Cormano) · ca. 1632

Public domainThe Met
Design for a Fountain, by Unknown, Italian

Design for a Fountain

Unknown, Italian · 1650–1700

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. 734 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. 397370 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 02:27 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.

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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.