Monographs
Clarke, M. (2001) The Art of
All Colours: Mediaeval Recipe Books for Painters and Illuminators. London:
Archetype Publications.
Reviewed in: Art
Bulletin 84:703, Ambix 52: 89, Studies in Conservation 46: 304; JAIC 41: 189 & 291; Conservation News May 2002:15; Papier Restaurierung 4: 8.
Clarke, M. (2011) Mediaeval
Painters’ Materials and Techniques: The Montpellier ‘Liber
diversarum arcium’. London: Archetype
Publications.
Reviewed
in: Revista de História da Arte
No. I Série W:
267–9; Scriptorium, Bulletin
Codicologique 2011, 2: pp. 151-2.
Clarke, M. (2016) The crafte of lymmyng and The maner of
steynyng: Middle English recipes for painters, stainers, scribes, and
illuminators. Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society
O.S. 347)
Clarke, M. (2018) Tricks of
the medieval trades: The Trinity Encyclopedia: A Collection of
Fourteenth-Century English Craft Recipes. London: Archetype Publications.
Reviewed
in: Journal
of the Institute of Conservation, 04
May 2019, Vol.42(2), pp.170-172; Ge-conservación, 01 June 2019,
Vol.1(15), pp.186-187
Papers in international refereed journals
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 médiéval
40 (printemps 2002): pp. 36-44.
Clarke, M. (2004) “Anglo-Saxon Manuscript Pigments” Studies in Conservation 49.4: pp.
231-244 (and cover).
Clarke, M. (2004) “Really
don’t trust your eyes to identify manuscript pigments!” Gazette du livre médiéval 44 (printemps 2004): pp. 50-53.
Clarke, M. (2008) “Book satchels in early mediaeval British Isles,
Gazette du livre médiéval no. 52–53
pp. 16-24.
Clarke, M. (2009) “A nineteenth-century colourman’s terminology” Studies in Conservation 54 pp. 160-9.
Clarke, M. (2012) “Recovery of effaced mediaeval recipes for
painters and illuminators from Brussels Royal Library MS 10152 [circa
1200]” Bulletin de la Commission royale
d’Histoire – Handelingen van de Koninklijke Commissie voor Geschiedenis 178: pp. 5–21.
Miguel, Catarina, João A. Lopes, M. Clarke and Maria João Melo (2012)
“Combining infrared spectroscopy with chemometric analysis for the characterization
of proteinaceous binders in medieval paints” Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, vol. 199, pp. 32–38.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemolab.2012.09.003
Miguel, C., J. Vaz Pinto, M. Clarke and M. J. Melo (2013) “The alchemy of red
mercury sulphide: The production of vermilion for medieval art”, Dyes and Pigments,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2013.10.041
Clarke, M. (2018) “‘To stayne with molde’:
fifteenth-century English recipes for block stamping” Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung: ZKK 32.2:
226-232
Papers in international peer-reviewed
conference proceedings
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” art '99 (6th. International Conference
of the Associazione Italiana Prove Non Destruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica on
Non-Destructive Testing and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation
of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage), Rome, 17-20 May 1999: Vol. II, pp.
1421-1436.
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), (2002): 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” art 2002 (7th. International Conference of the Associazione Italiana Prove
Non Destruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica (AIPnD) on ‘Non-Destructive Testing
and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation of the Cultural and
Environmental Heritage’), Antwerp, 2-6 June 2002.
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 (managing ed.) Preprints of the 14th Triennial Meeting of the ICOM Committee for
Conservation, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 12-16, 2005: Vol. I 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
(managing ed.) Preprints of the 14th
Triennial Meeting of the ICOM Committee for Conservation, The Hague, The
Netherlands, September 12-16, 2005: Vol. I pp. 459-466.
Clarke, M., 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” art 2005, (8th. International Conference of the Associazione
Italiana Prove Non Destruttive Monitoraggio Diagnostica (AIPnD) on
‘Non-Destructive Testing and Microanalysis for the Diagnostics and Conservation
of the Cultural and Environmental Heritage’), Lecce, 15-19 May 2005.
Clarke, M. (2008) “Contemporary textual evidence for the use of
pigments in Anglo-Saxon England in the absence of technical descriptions” in:
J. Bridgland (managing ed.) Preprints of
the 15th Triennial Meeting of the International Council of Museums - Committee
for Conservation, 22-26 September 2008, New Delhi, India. Vol. I pp. 3-9.
Clarke,
M. (2011) “Colours versus colorants in art history: evaluating lost manuscript
yellows” Revista de História da Arte
(No. I Série W: ‘Medieval colours:
between beauty and meaning.’): pp. 138–151
http://revistadehistoriadaarte.wordpress.com/
Clarke,
M. and Vandivere, A. (2011) “‘Purpura’
and proto-changeant: the earliest
representations of shot-silk fabrics”, J.
Bridgland (ed.) ICOM CC 16th Triennial Meeting of the International
Council of Museums, Lisbon 2011. Almada: Critério-Produção Gráfica.
Miguel,
C., A. Miranda, J.A. Lopes, M.J. Melo, and M.
Clarke (2011) “A study in Scarlet – vermilion red and colour paint
formulations in medieval illuminations”, J. Bridgland (ed.) ICOM CC 16th Triennial Meeting of the International Council of Museums,
Lisbon 2011. Almada: Critério-Produção Gráfica.
Contributions to books
Clarke, M. (2003) “L’analyse de pigments in situ, et sans prelevement, dans les manuscrits medievaux:
l’exemple des manuscrits Anglo-Saxons” in L’Archeometrie
au Service des Monuments et des Œuvres d’art, D. Allart & P. Hoffsummer
(eds.), (Dossier de la Commission Royale des Monuments, Sites et Fouilles 10),
Centre Europeen d'Archeometrie, Liège: pp. 187-194.
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’ colourmen’s
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. (2009) “Codicological indicators of
practical mediaeval artists’ recipes”, in Sources and Serendipity: Testimonies of Artists’ Practice Edited by
Erma Hermens and Joyce H Townsend. London: Archetype Publications, pp. 8–17 and
plates 3-6.
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 Erma Hermens
and Joyce H Townsend. London: Archetype Publications, pp. 50–64 and Plate 18.
Clarke, M. (2010) “The context of the O livro de como se fazem as cores: late mediaeval artists’ recipes
books (14th–15th centuries)” in L. U. Afonso (ed.) The Materials of The Image: As Matérias da Imagem, Série
Monográfica «Alberto Benveniste» 3.º Volume. Lisboa: Cátedra de Estudos Sefarditas
«Alberto Benveniste» da Universidade de Lisboa: pp. 45-73.
Clarke, M. (2011) “Framing Analytical Research Questions” in: S.
Neate, D. Howell, R. Ovenden and A.M. Pollard (eds.) The technological study of books and manuscripts as artefacts: Research
questions and analytical solutions, British Archaeological Reports International Series Volume 2209 (BAR S2209
2011), pp. 25–30.
Clarke, M. (2011) “Middeleeuwse miniaturen” in: H. Westgeest et al. (eds.) Kunsttechnieken in historisch perspectief. Turnhout: Brepols. pp.
126-137.
Clarke (2012) “Reworking and re-use : adaptation and use in
workshop texts” in: S. Eyb-Green et al. (eds)
The Artist’s Process: Technology and Interpretation, London, Archetype Publications, pp. 27-31.
Clarke (2012) “A unique 12th-century illuminator’s treatise: an
original composition incorporated in the Brussels Compendium Artis Picturae” in:
S. Eyb-Green et al. (eds) The
Artist’s Process: Technology and Interpretation, London, Archetype Publications, pp. 54-59.
Nadolny, J., M. Clarke, E. Hermens, A. Massing, and
L. Carlyle (2012) “Art technological source
research: documentary sources on European painting to the twentieth century,
with appendices I–VII” in: Joyce Hill Stoner
and Rebecca Rushfield (eds.) The Conservation of Easel Paintings. London
and New York: Routledge, pp. 3–32.
Miguel, C., A. Miranda, M. Oliveira, M.J. Melo, and M. Clarke (2012) ‘“The book on how one
makes colours of all shades in order to illuminate books” revisited’ in: S.
Eyb-Green et al. (eds) The
Artist’s Process: Technology and Interpretation, London, Archetype Publications, pp. 60-66 and plate 15.
Clarke, M. (2012)
“‘Fatto d’Archimia’: alchemy and artificial pigments”, in S. Kroustallis and M. del Egido (eds.) Fatto d’archimia:
Los pigmentos artificiales en las técnicas pictóricas. Madrid:
Ministerio de Education, Cultura y Deporte, pp. 13–23.
Vandivere,
A. and M. Clarke (2012) “Changing
Drapery, Recipes and Practice” in: M. De Mey, M.P.J. Martens and C. Stroo
(eds.) Vision & Material: Interaction
between Art and Science in Jan van Eyck’s Time. Brussels: KVAB Press
(Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten), pp.
235–253.
Clarke, M. (2012)
“Transmission of artist’s technical texts:
Status quaestionis” in: M. Clarke et al.
(eds.) Transmission of Artists’ Knowledge.
Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en
Kunsten, pp.19–24.
Clarke,
M. (2013) “Recovering the medieval palette” in: Philip Ball, Mark Clarke and
Carinna Parraman, ed. Phoebe Stubbs: Colour
in the Making: From Old Wisdom to New Brilliance, London: Black Dog
Publishing, pp. 44-57.
Clarke, M. (2013) “The earliest technical recipes: Assyrian
recipes, Greek chemical treatises and the Mappae
clavicula text family” in: R. Córdoba (ed.) Craft treatises and handbooks: the dissemination of technical knowledge
in the Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 9-31
Clarke, M. (2013) “Late mediaeval artists’ recipe books (14th-15th
centuries)” in: R. Córdoba (ed.) Craft
treatises and handbooks: the dissemination of technical knowledge in the Middle
Ages. Turnhout: Brepols. pp. 33-53.
Clarke, M. (2014) “Reworking Theophilus: adaptation and use in
workshop texts”, in: A. Speer et al. (eds.)
Zwischen Kunsthandwerk und Kunst: Die
‘Schedula diversarum artium’ (Miscellanea
Mediaevalia Band 37). Berlin–Boston: W. de Gruyter, pp. 72-89.
Clarke,
M. (2014) “Dioscorides as an art
technological source” in: H. Dubois et
al. (eds.) Making and Transforming
Art: Technology and Interpretation, pp. 1-9.
Clarke, M. and A. Wallert (2014) “Academy and workshop: medieval
transmission of late antique knowledge” in: H. Dubois et al. (eds.) Making and
Transforming Art: Technology and Interpretation, London: Archetype Publications
pp. 10-15.
Broecke,
L. and M. Clarke. (2016) “What’s
Wrong with Thompson’s Cennino?” in: S. Eyb-Green et al. (eds.) Sources on Art
Technology: Back to Basics, London: Archetype Publications pp. 65-69.
Clarke, M., P. Fredrickx, L. Speleers, I. Vanden Berghe, J.
Wouters (2017) “Comparative studies of 17th-century Netherlandish red lake
glazes in the Oranjezaal, Palace Huis ten Bosch” [Presented at Dyes in History and Archaeology 22,
2003], in: J. Kirby (ed.) The Diversity
of Dyes in History and Archaeology, London: Archetype Publications, pp.
162-174.
Clarke,
M. (2018) “Recipes and reception: late Medieval English colour recipes and
amateur illuminators” in: S. Panayotova and P. Ricciardi (eds.) Manuscripts in the Making: Art and Science,
London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller/Brepols pp. 54–65.
Nabais,
P., M.J. Melo, and M. Clarke (Forthcoming)
“Tangled threads: Reflection on the historical recipes on folium purple dye”,
in: D. Oltrogge et al. (eds) Proceedings
of the 8th symposium of the ICOM-CC working group on Art Technological Source
Research, Cologne 2019. Paris: ICOM-CC
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.
Eyb-Green,
S., J.H. Townsend, M. Clarke, J.
Nadolny and S. Kroustallis (eds.) (2012) The Artist’s Process: Technology and
Interpretation, London, Archetype
Publications.
Miranda, A., M.J. Melo and M. Clarke (eds.) (2011) Medieval colours:
between beauty and meaning (número especial: Revista de História da Arte No. I
Série W).
Clarke, M., B. De Munck and S. Dupré (eds.) (2012) Transmission of
Artists’ Knowledge. Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse
Academie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten.
Other
Clarke, M. (2000) “Life
& Career: Old Master” Science,
Careers 2000_12_01/noDOI.7738902542676882900
Clarke, M. (2002) “Seeking the invisible: Forensic science at the
Parker Library” Medieval Academy News No.
144 (winter 2002) p. 8.
Clarke, M. (2003) “New science and old books: technical
examination of Arab manuscripts in Dallas” Impuls year 32 no. 143 pp. 29-31.
Clarke, M. (2007) Review of: “Der »Liber illuministarum« aus
Kloster Tegernsee” Ambix Vol. 54,
Part 2, July 2007 pp. 219-221.
Clarke, M. (2007)
Review of: “Artists’ Pigments 4” and “Natural Dyes”, ICON News, September 2007 pp. 33-4.
Clarke,
M. (2007) ‘Pentimenti’: D.V.
Thompson’s corrections to his translation of Cennini.’ http://www.clericus.org/pentimenti.htm
Clarke,
M. (2009) Review of: “Medieval Painting in Northern Europe” Studies in Conservation Vol. 53 No. 4
pp. 300-1.
Clarke,
M. and A. Stijnman (2010, 2012) “Around Theophilus: an expert meeting towards
new standards in Theophilus scholarship” Yearbook of the
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbütteler Bibliotheks-Informationen for 2010. Reprinted in: S. Eyb-Green et al. (eds) The Artist’s Process: Technology and
Interpretation, London, Archetype
Publications, pp. 215–7.
Clarke,
M. (2014) ‘The Archaeology of the Book: Formulating Analytical Research
Questions’, e-conservation Journal 2
pp. 10-16. 10.18236/econs2.201403
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.