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Publications by Mark Clarke

 

 

Books       

 

Clarke, M. (2001) The Art of All Colours: Mediaeval Recipe Books for Painters and Illuminators. London: Archetype Publications.

 

Clarke, M. (in preparation) Liber diversarum arcium: the pre-Eyckian painters manual (Montpellier, Bibliothque de la Facult de Mdicin MS H 277: Edition, Translation, Commentary). 

 

Papers in international refereed periodicals

 

Clarke, M. (1999) A new technique for the non-destructive identification of organic pigments, dyes and inks in–situ on early mediaeval manuscripts, using 3–D fluorescence reflectance spectroscopy (Associazione Italiana Prove Non Destruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica): 6th. ed. (art '99), Vol. II, pp. 1421-1436.

 

Clarke, M. (2001) The analysis of medieval European manuscripts Reviews in Conservation 2: pp. 3-17.

 

Clarke, M. (2002) The analysis of manuscript pigments: why, what and how? Gazette du livre mdival 40 (printemps 2002): pp. 36-44.

 

Clarke, M. (2002) Seeking the invisible: Forensic science at the Parker Library Medieval Academy News No. 144 (winter 2002) p. 8.

 

Clarke, M. and M. J. Meijers [sic], (2002) Simplification of near–infrared visualisation techniques for identifying blue pigments in situ on manuscripts Care and conservation of manuscripts 6, Museum Tusculanum Press (University of Copenhagen): pp. 242-249 & plates XVII - XIX.

 

Clarke, M. (2002) Limitations of fluorescence spectroscopy as a tool for non-destructive in situ identification of organic pigments, dyes and inks (Associazione Italiana Prove Non Destruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica): 7th. ed. (art '2002),

 

Clarke, M. (forthcoming) Iron and tannin in early purple dye recipes Dyes in History and Archaeology 23 (2003).

 

Clarke, M. (2004) Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Pigments Studies in Conservation 49.4: pp. 231-244 (and cover).

 

Clarke, M. (2004) Really dont trust your eyes to identify manuscript pigments! Gazette du livre mdival 44 (printemps 2004): pp. 50-53.

 

M. Clarke, P. Fredrickx, M.P. Colombini, A. Andreotti, J. Wouters, M. van Bommel, N. Eastaugh, V. Walsh, T. Chaplin, R. Siddall. (2005) Pompeii Purpurissum Pigment Problems, (Associazione Italiana Prove Non Destruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica): 8th ed. (art 2005)

 

Clarke, M. (2008) Book satchels in early mediaeval British Isles, Gazette du livre mdival no. 52–53 pp. 16-24.

 

Clarke, M. P. Fredrickx, L. Speleers, I. Vanden Berghe, J. Wouters, (in press) Comparative studies of seventeenth-century Netherlandish red lake glazes in the Oranjezaal, Palace Huis ten Bosch Dyes in History and Archaeology 22.

 

Clarke, M. and L. Carlyle, (2005) Page-Image recipe databases, a new approach for accessing art technological manuscripts and rare printed sources: The Winsor & Newton archive prototype in: I. Verger (ed.)  ICOM-CC 14 pp. 24-29.

 

Burnstock, A., I. Lanfear, K.J. van den Berg, L. Carlyle, M. Clarke, E. Hendriks and J. Kirby (2005) Comparison of the fading and surface deterioration of red lake pigments in six paintings by Vincent van Gogh with artificially aged paint reconstructions in: I. Verger (ed.)  ICOM-CC pp. 459-466.

 

Clarke, M. (2008) Contemporary textual evidence for the use of pigments in Anglo-Saxon England in the absence of technical descriptions in: J. Bridgland (ed.) ICOM-CC 15 pp. 3-9.

 

Clarke, M. (2009) A nineteenth-century colourmans terminology Studies in Conservation 54 pp. 160-9.

 

Clarke, M. (submitted) Recovery of effaced mediaeval recipes for painters and illuminators from Brussels Royal Library MS 10152 Bulletin de la Commission Royale dHistoire

 

Miguel, C., M.J. Melo, M. Clarke, J.A. Lopes (forthcoming 2009) The greens of medieval Portuguese illuminations Revista de Histria de Arte

 

Clarke, M. (forthcoming 2009) Evaluating Lost Manuscript Yellows Revista de Histria de Arte.

 

Contributions to books

 

Clarke, M. (2003) Lanalyse de pigments in situ, et sans prelevement, dans les manuscrits medievaux: lexemple des manuscrits Anglo-Saxons in LArcheometrie au Service des Monuments et des uvres dart, D. Allart & P. Hoffsummer (eds.), (Dossier de la Commission Royale des Monuments, Sites et Fouilles 10), Centre Europeen d'Archeometrie, Lige: pp. 187-194.

 

Clarke, M.  (2003) Materials of the Early Egyptian, Arab, Islamic and Coptic Book in: The Far Trust, Catalogue I : Manuscripts No. 01 through 35. Dallas: Brown Books, pp. 176-186,

 

Clarke, M. (2003) Report of Technical Analysis [with 35 articles on individual manuscripts] in: The Far Trust, Catalogue I : Manuscripts No. 01 through 35. Dallas: Brown Books.

 

Clarke, M. and L. Carlyle (2005) Page-image recipe databases: a new approach to making art technological manuscripts and rare printed sources accessible in: M. Clarke et al. (eds.) Art of the Past:  pp. 49-52.

 

Clarke, M. (2005) Is gold an ingredient in Assyrian-Mesopotamian written recipes for red glass? in: M. Clarke et al. (eds.) Art of the Past: pp. 24-32.

 

Clarke, M. and L. Carlyle (2006) Recipe databases for historical oil painting materials: Winsor & Newton Archive in: J.J. Boon and E. Ferreira (eds.) Reporting Highlights of the De Mayerne Programme: Research programme on molecular studies in conservation and technical studies in art history, The Hague: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [NWO]: pp. 109-114.

 

van den Berg, K-J., A. Burnstock, L. Carlyle, M. Clarke, E. Hendriks, R. Hoppenbrouwers, J. Kirby and I. Lanfear (2006) Fading of red lake paints after Vincent van Gogh – an interdisciplinary study involving three De Mayerne projects in: J.J. Boon and E. Ferreira (eds.) Reporting Highlights of the De Mayerne Programme: Research programme on molecular studies in conservation and technical studies in art history, The Hague: Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [NWO]: pp. 89-96.

 

Clarke, M. (2008) Asymptotically approaching the past: historiography and critical use of sources in art technological source research in: S. Kroustallis et al. (eds.) Art Technology: Sources and Methods, London: Archetype Publications: pp. 16-22.

 

Clarke, M. (2008) Nineteenth-century English artists colourmens archives as a source of technical information, in: S. Kroustallis et al. (eds.) Art Technology : Sources and Methods, London: Archetype Publications: pp. 75-84.

 

Clarke, M. (2008) Middeleeuwse miniaturen in: van Bueren, T.,  H. Westgeest (eds.) Kunsttechnieken, University of Utrecht

 

Jilleen Nadolny and M. Clarke (in press)  Documentary sources relating to the practice of painting in Europe, to c.1550 ad in: Joyce Hill Stoner (ed.) Conservation of Easel Paintings Butterworths-Elsevier. 

 

Clarke, M. (2009) Codicological indicators of practical mediaeval artists recipes, in Sources and Serendipity: Testimonies of Artists Practice Edited by E. Hermens and J.H Townsend (London: Archetype Publications, forthcoming 2009).

 

Clarke, M.  (2009) Writing recipes for non-specialists c.1300: The Anglo-Latin Secretum Philosophorum, Glasgow MS Hunterian 110, in Sources and Serendipity: Testimonies of Artists Practice Edited by E. Hermens and J.H Townsend (London: Archetype Publications, forthcoming 2009).

 

Clarke, M. (in press) Late mediaeval artists recipe books (14th-15th centuries) in: D. Ricardo Crdoba de la Llave (ed.) Craft treatises and handbooks: the dissemination of technical knowledge in the Middle Ages, Universidad de Crdoba press.

 

Clarke, M. (in press) The earliest technical recipes: Assyrian recipes, Greek chemical treatises and the Mappae clavicula text family in: D. Ricardo Crdoba de la Llave (ed.) Craft treatises and handbooks: the dissemination of technical knowledge in the Middle Ages, Universidad de Crdoba press.

 

Clarke, M. (2009) Alquimia y la tecnologa del arte in: Kroustalis et al. (eds.) Fatto darchimia: Historia e Identificacin de los Pigmentos Artificiales en las Tcnicas Pictricas, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de Espaa.

 

Clarke, M. (2009)"The context of the Livro de como se fazem as cores: Late medieval artists' recipes books (14th-15th centuries)" in: Luis U. Afonso and Antnio Joo Cruz (eds.), As Matrias da Imagem: antigos receiturios e tratados portugueses para preparao de pigmentos aplicados na pintura , Universidade de Lisboa.

 

Books edited

 

Clarke, M. and J. Boon (eds.) (2003) MolArt: A multidisciplinary NWO Prioriteit project on Molecular Aspects of Ageing in Painted Works of Art: Final report and highlights 1995-2002. Amsterdam: FOM Institute AMOLF.

 

Clarke, M. A. Stijnman, J.H. Townsend (eds.) (2005) Art of the Past — Sources and Reconstructions. London: Archetype Publications.

 

Other contributions to journals

 

Clarke, M. (2003) New science and old books: technical examination of Arab manuscripts in Dallas Impuls year 32 no. 143 pp. 29-31. (Amsterdam FOM-AMOLF / Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie: Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics).

 

Clarke, M. (2007) Review of: Der Liber illuministarum aus Kloster Tegernsee Ambix Vol. 54, Part 2, July 2007 pps. 219-221.

 

Clarke, M. (2007) Review of: "Artists Pigments 4" and "Natural Dyes", ICON News, September 2007 pp.33-4.

 

Clarke, M. (2009) Review of: Medieval Painting in Northern Europe Studies in Conservation Vol. 53 No. 4 pp.300-1.

 

Digital resource

 

Clarke, M. (managing editor), et al. (2005, 2008) Winsor & Newton Archive of 19th Century Artists materials. [Database of manuscript recipes for manufacturing artists materials, including page-images, detailed content analysis of each recipe, and glossary of terminology.] 1st ed. (2005) 9,500 recipes in 11,000 pages, 2nd ed. (2008) 15,000 recipes in 17,000 pages.

 

 

 

 

 


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