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making art technological sources accessible

Mark Clarke is an internationally recognised researcher in art technology, specialising in artists' paint, and in artists' recipe books. He consults internationally on making manuscripts and books accessible, especially through digitization.

Currently Mark Clarke is Associate Professor in Technical Art History at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and Guest researcher at University of Amsterdam.

Reconstructions, palaeolithic walls, Ardèche	Dr Mark Clarke trained in England as a paper conservator (Camberwell) and a conservation scientist (De Montfort), with a PhD on "Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Pigments" (Cambridge). His research is interdisciplinary, involving recipe research, chemical analysis, historically accurate reconstruction and ethnoarchaeology. He has recently been Invited Fellow of the VLAC - Flemish Academic Centre, the Belgian Institute for Advanced Study in Brussels, hosted by the by the Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België / Royal Flemish Academy (2011-2), and an invited researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (2012). He is based in Belgium. LinkedIn profile
Recipe research, DV Thompson archive, Washington
Technical exam, Islamic manuscripts, USA
Analysis of pigments on manuscripts
Ethnoarchaeology, Ethiopia
	Publications by Mark Clarke