Rights clearance desk for images
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.
Where this page got its records
222 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
402 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 32 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (d. 1564)
ca. 1510–11 · Red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study (recto); soft black chalk, or less probably charcoal (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Saint John the Evangelist (recto; Cartoon for a Fresco); Saint Mark (verso; Cartoon for a Fresco)
Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) (d. 1563)
1548–49 · (Recto and verso) Charcoal, highlighted with white chalk, on blue paper; outlines heavily stylus-incised on recto, and partly so on verso
Cleared · Public Domain
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Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair)
Vincenzo Grandi (d. 1578)
mid-16th century · Bronze, partially oil-gilt
Cleared · Public Domain
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Altar candlestick with busts in relief of Saints Peter and Paul (one of a pair)
Vincenzo Grandi (d. 1578)
mid-16th century · Bronze, partially oil-gilt
Cleared · Public Domain
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Virgin and child with angels
Unrecorded maker
ca. 1630 · Bronze, on a later gilt base
Cleared · Public Domain
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Tabernacle door with the risen Christ
Pietro Paolo Nardi
mid-17th century · Bronze, fire-gilt; iron (lock mechanism)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Left Half of a Wall Decoration for a Chapel
Francesco Ferrari (d. 1708)
ca. 1690 · Pen, brown ink and wash with touches of blue and green wash, over black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Saint Ignatius Loyola with Saints and Martyrs of the Jesuit Order
Alessandro Algardi (d. 1654)
second half of the 17th century · Bronze
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for an Aedicular Altar with St. Paul at the Left
Johann Georg Dirr (d. 1779)
ca. 1745–60 · Brush and gray wash, watercolor, and white gouache, over graphite; framing lines in pen and black ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Monumental Altar, plate P from "Unterschiedliche Neu Inventierte Altäre mit darzu gehörigen Profillen u. Grundrißen"
Jacob Gottlieb Thelot
printed ca. 1750–56 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Illustrated London Almanack
William Biscombe Gardner (d. 1919)
1876–80 · Illustrations: wood engravings and color lithographs
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Design for Chapel of the Angels, St. Michael's Episcopal Church, New York, New York
Louis C. Tiffany (d. 1933)
1919-20 · Transparent and opaque watercolor, ink, metallic paint, and graphite on paper mounted on paperboard
In copyright
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