.. c l e r i c u s ..

making art technological sources accessible


clericus is the website of Mark Clarke

More than simply a personal site, the aim is to collect and disseminate information for research into historical materials of painters, scribes and illuminators.

Research into artists' materials and techniques is highly interdisciplinary and is mainly conducted by means of the three mutually supporting 'legs' of artists' recipe books, scientific analysis, and historically accurate reconstructions. There is, of course, a variety of supplementary material that can inform such research, such as ethnoarchaeology, surviving realia, contemporary descriptions of artists at work or contemporary reactions to their productions.

About Mark Clarke

- who

- publications

- mark@clericus.org

Art Technological Source Research : International projects

ATSR / Art Technological Source Research Working Group
In the last few years an important international research group has formed to concentrate efforts in this field - the ATSR group - which has held two international symposia and will have a third in Glasgow in 2008.

19th Century Paint Recipe Database (Winsor & Newton Project)
Since 2004 an international project has been digitising and cataloguing the 19th century archive of recipes for artists' materials held by the English manufacturer Winsor & Newton

Impact Of Oil
In 2007 a 5-year project started in the Netherlands investigating in depth the early history, technology, impact and reception of oil paint.

Research tools

- The Art of All Colours: Mediaeval Recipe Books for Painters and Illuminators -

- etexts


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Last updated 4 February 2008 Mark Clarke
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