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

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Results for "Head"11 records

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Ancestral Commemorative Head (uhunmwun-elao) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ancestral Commemorative Head (uhunmwun-elao)

Unrecorded maker

possibly mid-1500s or early 1600s · Sculpture, Copper alloy and iron

Cleared · CC0

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Staff Head(?) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Staff Head(?)

Unrecorded maker

c. 400–700 · Metalwork, cast gold

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait Head of Emperor Vespasian, Recut from Head of Nero

Unrecorded maker

64–79 CE · Sculpture, marble

Cleared · CC0

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Head Fragment by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Head Fragment

Unrecorded maker

c. 900–300 BCE · Jade, jadeite

Cleared · CC0

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Idealized Head by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Idealized Head

Unrecorded maker

50 BCE–100 CE · Sculpture, dolomite

Cleared · CC0

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Memorial head (nsodie) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Memorial head (nsodie)

Unrecorded maker

late 1600s–early 1700s · Sculpture, Terracotta

Cleared · CC0

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Head of Sekhmet by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Head of Sekhmet

Unrecorded maker

c. 1391–1353 BCE · Sculpture, granodiorite

Cleared · CC0

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Head by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Head

Unrecorded maker

1650–1700 · Sculpture, terracotta

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait Head of a Youth by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait Head of a Youth

Unrecorded maker

1–100 CE · Sculpture, marble

Cleared · CC0

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Relief Portrait Head of the Emperor Balbinus by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Relief Portrait Head of the Emperor Balbinus

Unrecorded maker

c. 238 CE · Sculpture, marble

Cleared · CC0

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Bull Head Attachment by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bull Head Attachment

Unrecorded maker

c. 700–600 BCE · Sculpture, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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