
The Descent into Limbo
Andrea Mantegna (d. 1506)
mid-15th century · Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
liveRights 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
1051 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
296 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 7 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

The Descent into Limbo
Andrea Mantegna (d. 1506)
mid-15th century · Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Copy of The Rich Man Transported to Hell, from "The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus"
Heinrich Aldegrever (d. 1561)
after 1554 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Hell (copy)
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) (d. 1545)
after 1511 · Woodcut, hand-colored
Cleared · Public Domain
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Copy of Night Parade of One Hundred Demons from the Shinjuan Collection
Mochizuki Gyokusen (d. 1755)
18th century · Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Orpheus, returning from Hades without Eurydice
Marie Alexandre Lucien Coudray (d. 1964)
1893–99, struck in the 20th century · Partially patinated iron
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.
Tityus Punished in Hell
Anonymous, Italian, 16th century (d. 1600)
1566–89 · Engraving; copy
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.
Hell Hole
John Sloan (d. 1951)
1917 · Etching and aquatint
In copyright
live1. Pin the work
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2. Read the arithmetic
Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.
3. Seal and export
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