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Mark Clarke serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Conservation and Restoration at NOVA University Lisbon's Faculty of Science and Technology, specializing in technical art history with emphasis on medieval manuscript materials and Art Technological Source Research.
Education:
- PhD in Archaeology, University of Cambridge (focus: 'Anglo-Saxon manuscript pigments')
His research centers on interpreting historical craft recipe books from the Middle Ages and 19th century to reconstruct artistic techniques. Clarke bridges conservation science and art history through analysis of pigment composition, binding media, and manuscript production methods. Key areas include:
- Medieval illumination practices
- Material degradation in historical artworks
- Philological analysis of technical manuscripts
- Historically informed conservation
His publications reveal a consistent focus on cross-disciplinary analysis of artists' recipe books, connecting philological study with material science to decode historical production techniques across European medieval contexts.
Awards:
- Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy Institute for Advanced Study
- Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Clarke advises national libraries of Austria, Sweden, and Egypt on conservation matters, though specific grant funding or student supervision details are not documented in the source material.
No laboratory or research team affiliations are specified in the available text.
