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clericus = Mark Clarke
Dr Mark Clarke is an interdisciplinary researcher into historic artists' materials, especially paint, and in particular mediaeval paint. With a
background in conservation and conservation science, he specialises in works of art as physical objects, or 'technical art history'. A particular interest is the materials and techniques of mediaeval European and Islamic manuscripts.
Working with the International Council of Museums (Conservation Committee) he co-founded the international working group on Art Technological Source Research, studying historical technical texts. He has made a particular study of artists' recipe books, and has published a study and extensive catalogue of mediaeval artists' recipe books The Art of All Colours, an edition and translation of the Montpellier Liber diversarum arcium, and an edited corpus of Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators.
He is an invited associate professor of Technical Art History in the Department of Conservation and Restoration, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
 | About Mark Clarke
Research and Expertise
Contact: mark@clericus.org
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 | Publications by Mark Clarke
On the analysis of historic paint, on artists' recipe books, and others
[Published] [New in 2018]
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 | Artists' Recipe Books
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 | New publication 2018 Tricks of the medieval trades: The Trinity Encyclopedia
A Collection of Fourteenth-Century English Craft Recipes |
 | The Montpellier Manuscript [Publication Details]
"Liber diversarum arcium", a 14th century painter's manual
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The crafte of lymmyng and The maner of steynyng
Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and illuminators |
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Invited Associate Professor, Technical Art History, Department of Conservation and Restoration |
 | Art Technological Source Research
International Council of Museums, Conservation Committee, Working Group ATSR |
 | Winsor & Newton Project
Database of 19th century commercial paint recipes |