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Dr Mark Clarke is an interdisciplinary researcher into historic artists' materials, especially paint, and in particular mediaeval paint. With a background in conservation and conservation science, he specialises in works of art as physical objects, or 'technical art history'. A particular interest is the materials and techniques of mediaeval European and Islamic manuscripts.

Working with the International Council of Museums (Conservation Committee) he co-founded the international working group on Art Technological Source Research. He is currently researching the early history of oil paint at the University of Amsterdam. He has made a particular study of artists' recipe books, and has recently published a new edition and translation 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.

He is an associate professor of Technical Art History in the Department of Conservation and Restoration, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and an invited researcher at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.

About Mark Clarke
   Research and Expertise
   Contact: mark@clericus.org

Publications by Mark Clarke
   On the analysis of historic paint, on artists' recipe books, and others
   [Published]      [New!]

Artists' Recipe Books

The Montpellier Manuscript    JUST PUBLISHED! [Details]
    "Liber diversarum arcium", a 14th century painter's manual

Digitization
   Consultancy: advising libraries and archives on the digitization of manuscripts and rare books.

Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
   February 2012: Guest researcher, "The Co-Transmission of Mediaeval Paint Recipes as an Indicator of the Inter-Penetration of Colour Theory, Artists' Practical Knowledge and Domestic Science"

VLAC Fellowship
   Innovative adaptation by the "Flemish Primitives" of pre-existing techniques of oil painting, as revealed by artists' recipe manuscripts c.1350-c.1550

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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	About Mark Clarke Research and Expertise Contact: mark@clericus.org
	Publications by Mark Clarke On the analysis of historic paint, on artists' recipe books, and others [Published] [New!]
	Artists' Recipe Books
	The Montpellier Manuscript JUST PUBLISHED! [Details] "Liber diversarum arcium", a 14th century painter's manual
	Digitization Consultancy: advising libraries and archives on the digitization of manuscripts and rare books.
	Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte February 2012: Guest researcher, "The Co-Transmission of Mediaeval Paint Recipes as an Indicator of the Inter-Penetration of Colour Theory, Artists' Practical Knowledge and Domestic Science"
	VLAC Fellowship Innovative adaptation by the "Flemish Primitives" of pre-existing techniques of oil painting, as revealed by artists' recipe manuscripts c.1350-c.1550
	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