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making art technological sources accessible

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.

- Publications

- mark@clericus.org

Art Technological Source Research : International projects

19th Century Paint Recipe Database (Winsor & Newton Project)
2004-2008 an international project 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

- etexts