What is The Athenaeum?
The Athenaeum is building a set of online tools for studying the humanities. Whether you are an armchair historian, a teacher, or just someone with an interest in history, archaeology, philosophy, or the arts, we hope to provide new ways to explore and interact with all sorts of material. It is a never-ending quest, and we welcome your involvement. Take a moment, browse the site, and let us know what you think!

What makes this site unique? Find out here.

New artworks for January
Member rocsdad has uploaded 779 images.
Member robmatthews has uploaded 24 images.
Member castiblanco has uploaded 2 images.

Apology for the downtime

We apologise for the downtime earlier today; one of our temp directories for image processing filled up, which stopped the web server. Hopefully it wasn't an inconvenience, and it has been fixed now.
(Entered by chris_mccormick on Friday January 20th, 2012 11:48 AM)

Travelling for the next week

I will be travelling (yes, the British spelling) in East Africa for the next week, getting back home on the 22nd of January. I will have minimal internet access during that time. So if there are issues while I am gone, send me an e-mail through the Contact link, be patient, and I'll handle it when I get back.
(Entered by chris_mccormick on Friday January 13th, 2012 8:52 AM)

Smarter about copyrights

We have upgraded our artwork pages to do a better job of checking (automatically) for potential copyright issues with an artwork or an artist. If either the artwork or the artist is judged to be not in the public domain, only the thumbnail will be displayed, and there will be a message about the copyright. This will help us better police when people upload more recent artworks.
(Entered by chris_mccormick on Tuesday January 10th, 2012 10:46 AM)

Cool new graphs

We have added cool new graphs to the Member Profile page and the Person Detail page, showing when artworks were uploaded. Check out the graph on the Renoir page or the one for our main uploader, rocsdad. They're pretty neat.
(Entered by chris_mccormick on Friday December 23rd, 2011 10:31 AM)
Our most recent artworks
Cliffs at La Bouille - by Paul Gauguin
(Entered Friday, 27 January 8:06 AM by user rocsdad)
The Seine at Rouen - by Paul Gauguin
(Entered Friday, 27 January 8:01 AM by user rocsdad)
Meadow and Trees - by Paul Gauguin
(Entered Friday, 27 January 7:50 AM by user rocsdad)
Two People on a Sofa - by Paul Gauguin
(Entered Thursday, 26 January 3:40 PM by user rocsdad)
Flowers and Books - by Paul Gauguin
(Entered Thursday, 26 January 2:41 PM by user rocsdad)