Working with the International Council of Museums (Conservation Committee) he co-founded the international working group on Art Technological Source Research. He is currently reseacrhing the early history of oil paint at the University of Amsterdam. He has made a particular study of artists' recipe books, and is preparing a new publication of the Liber diversarum arcium (Montpellier Manuscript H277).
He advises libraries and collections on book digitization, especially for rare and fragile manuscripts and similar material.
![]() | About Mark Clarke
Research and Expertise
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![]() | Publications by Mark Clarke
On the analysis of historic paint, on artists' recipe books, and others |
![]() | Artists' Recipe Books |
![]() | The Montpellier Manuscript
"Liber diversarum arcium", a 14th century painter's manual |
| Digitization
Consultancy |
![]() | Impact of Oil
A history of oil painting in the Low Countries and its consequences for the visual arts, 1350-1550 |
![]() | Art Technological Source Research
International Council of Museums, Conservation Committee, Working Group ATSR |
![]() | Winsor & Newton Project
Database of 19th century commercial paint recipes |
![]() | The "Secretum Philosophorum"
The English 'Dangerous Book for Boys' of c.1300: the seven liberal arts made mechanical |
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