At the moment, I can only reach it via the Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20200316103127/http://the-athenaeum.org/
It appears to have been active up until 16th March 2020 - having started up in May 2002 and accumulated more than a 250,000 great images of artworks since that date.
- Has it forgotten to pay its host or domain name registrar? (i.e. the normal reason websites go offline)
- Has the owner been affected by the coronavirus crisis?
- Have they just shut down for the duration of the crisis?
- Are they coming back after a spell of ventilation elsewhere?
This is serious - art history fans need to know!
A number of the links appear to be dead. However it is still possible to access
- the alphabetical list of artists
- an individual artist - see my pic re Turner below (minus an image by another artist)
- the list of artworks for that artist - see pic below
Do let me know if you know anything about what is happening - and particularly if the database resurrects and comes back online.
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| Athenaeum Profile Page for JMW Turner |
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| Alphabetical List of Titles of Turner Artworks in the Database |
Hi. Thanks for the post. When you find out what happened, I hope you will let all of us know. Thanks. Stay well. Stay safe.
ReplyDeletethank you for posting this..I've been concerned and missing the wonderful blog..fingers cross it will return
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