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making art technological sources accessible


Analysis Reconstruction Recipe research Ethnoarchaeology

clericus = 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

- mark@clericus.org

Publications

My publications are primarily concerned with the analysis of historic paint (especially on mediaeval manuscripts) and on artists' recipe books (especially mediaeval).

- List of publications by Mark Clarke

- Publications in progress

Art Technological Source Research : International projects

ATSR / Art Technological Source Research Working Group
In 2001 we set up an international research group which has been active concentrating efforts in this field. The ATSR group has been accepted as a working group of the International Council of Museums. It has held three international conferences and published two volumes of papers, with one forthcoming.

19th Century Paint Recipe Database (Winsor & Newton Project)
From 2004-2008 I managed two international projects which digitized and catalogued the 19th century archive of recipes for artists' materials held by the English manufacturer Winsor & Newton

Impact Of Oil
2007-2012 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 -

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Last updated 15 July 2008 Mark Clarke
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