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Matthew Clarke, Ph.D., is a conservation scientist in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art.
Learn how conservators at the National Museum of Asian Art preserved this fragile Japanese hand scroll "Miraculous Interventions of Jizo Bosatsu."
Matthew Clarke
May 22, 2021
The Guiding Hand of Past Masters
Behind the Scenes: Imaging A Japanese Handscroll