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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

Museums publish two different things about the same artwork: whether the work is in copyright, and whether their picture of it is. OpenPlate reads both, does the arithmetic on the published term, and shows you the sentence behind every point of the score.

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    410 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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A Painter by Ernest Meissonier, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Painter

Ernest Meissonier (d. 1891)

1855 · Painting, oil on mahogany

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On a Terrace by Ernest Meissonier, The Cleveland Museum of Art

On a Terrace

Ernest Meissonier (d. 1891)

1867 · Painting, oil on wood panel

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Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Panel from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances

Unrecorded maker

c. 1330–50 or later · Ivory, ivory

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Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Set of Three Panels from a Casket with Scenes from Courtly Romances

Unrecorded maker

c. 1330–50 · Ivory, ivory

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Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias by "Master of Noah's Ark", The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cutting from a Gradual: Initial I with Departure of Tobias

"Master of Noah's Ark"

c. 1390 · Manuscript, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

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Hinds House Window by Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hinds House Window

Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company (d. 1902)

c. 1900 · Glass, leaded glass

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Sindhu (Saindhava) Ragaputra of Shri Raga, from a Ragamala by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sindhu (Saindhava) Ragaputra of Shri Raga, from a Ragamala

Unrecorded maker

c. 1680–90 · Painting, gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text with Illustrated Border (verso) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Text with Illustrated Border (verso)

Unrecorded maker

c. 1510 · Manuscript, ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum

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A Vignette of Life on the Frontier by Jiao Bingzhen, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Vignette of Life on the Frontier

Jiao Bingzhen (d. 1726)

c. 1717–22 · Painting, Folding fan; ink and color on paper

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Leaf from the Wettinger Gradual: Historiated Initial (I) with Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine by Second Master of the Wettinger Gradual, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from the Wettinger Gradual: Historiated Initial (I) with Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine

Second Master of the Wettinger Gradual

c. 1330 · Manuscript, ink, tempera, and gold on parchment

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Partial Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial I[n principio] with the Marriage at Cana by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Partial Leaf from a Latin Bible: Initial I[n principio] with the Marriage at Cana

Unrecorded maker

c. 1260–1270 · Manuscript, ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

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