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making art technological sources accessible

clericus = Mark Clarke

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.


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 is based in Belgium.


Recipe research, DV Thompson archive, Washington


Technical exam, Islamic manuscripts, USA


Analysis of pigments on manuscripts


Ethnoarchaeology, Ethiopia


Publications by Mark Clarke


[mark@clericus.org] [clericus home page]
Last updated 15 October 2009       Mark Clarke       http://www.clericus.org/who.htm