Elisabetta Neri

Elisabetta Neri, an archaeologist and archaeometrist, is an associate researcher at UMR Orient&Méditerranée in Paris and a MCF at Sorbonne University. She was a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Liège (2020-2022) and served as a tenure-track researcher at the University of Florence (2022-2025), where she led the Colour Concept project, which is the origin of this book. She has authored around 200 publications focused on ancient and medieval decoration, city and countryside topography, and late antique religious phenomena. She has taught archaeology and the history of classical and post-classical art at various Italian (Milan, Pavia) and French (Sorbonne University, Paris-Nanterre) universities. Between 2014 and 2018, she taught Roman history (University of Cergy-Pontoise) and Byzantine history (Sorbonne University). She is an elected member of the Ambrosian Academy and has won the Maccabruni Prize (2012), the Saint-Augustin Prize (2025), and an FIS Consolidator project called Color2Code (2025).