Colour Concept “Secoli bui” a colori

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Elisabetta Neri, an archaeologist and archaeometrist, is a Research Associate at the UMR Orient & Méditerranée (Sorbonne University, Paris). A Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Liège (2020–2022), she held a tenure-track research position at the University of Florence (2022–2025), where she led the ‘Colour Concept’ project – the initiative from which this book originated. Author of approximately 200 publications focusing on ancient and medieval decoration, urban and rural topography, and religious phenomena of Late Antiquity, she has held teaching positions in archaeology and the history of classical and post-classical art at various universities in Italy (Milan, Pavia) and France (Sorbonne University, Paris-Nanterre). Between 2014 and 2018, she taught Roman history (University of Cergy-Pontoise) and Byzantine history (Sorbonne University). She is an elected member of the Accademia Ambrosiana and the recipient of the Maccabruni Prize (2012), the Prix Saint-Augustin (2025), and a FIS Consolidator project grant titled ‘Color2Code’.

Fulvio Cervini is a Full Professor of Medieval Art History at the University of Florence. From 1999 to 2005, he served as an official of the Superintendency for Historical, Artistic, and Ethno-anthropological Heritage of Piedmont, where he was responsible for heritage preservation in the provinces of Alessandria and Verbania and directed the Royal Armoury in Turin. His publications include the volumes I portali della Cattedrale di Genova e il gotico europeo (Florence, 1993), Il Candelabro Trivulzio (Cinisello Balsamo, 2000), and Liguria romanica (Milan, 2002). He has recently curated the exhibitions ‘Milleduecento’ (Matelica, 2018), ‘Alessandria scolpita’ (Alessandria, 2018–19), ‘Federico da Montefeltro e Gubbio’ (Gubbio, 2022, in collaboration with other scholars), and ‘Alessandria preziosa’ (Alessandria, 2024).

Paolo Liverani is a Full Professor of Ancient Topography at the University of Florence. Previously, from 1986 to 2005, he served as Head of the Department of Classical Antiquities at the Vatican Museums. A member of several academies, including the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, the Academia Europaea, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, the Société Nationale des Antiquaires de France, and the Archaeological Institute of America, he has authored over 350 publications and specialises in Roman topography, Late Antiquity, and ancient polychromy. Notable contributions regarding the latter subject include the exhibition he curated, ‘I colori del Bianco’ (Vatican Museums, 2004), and the organisation of two international roundtables on ancient polychromy (Florence, 2015; Rome, 2022).