Roberta Cerone studied at Sapienza University of Rome where she graduated (2003), obtained her specialization in Medieval and Modern Art History (2007) and her Ph.D. in Art History (2011). She has devoted herself to medieval research, with a particular interest in the monastic artistic production and civil and military architecture, with specific, but not exclusive, reference to the late Middle Ages and Central-Italian area. She has published many essays in italian and foreign journals and attended numerous national and international conferences. She is the author of two monographs: Congregato populo in palatio communis. Il palazzo pubblico nel Medioevo: il caso del Lazio meridionale (Roma, Edizioni Nuova cultura, 2010), La regola e il monastero. Arte e architettura in Santa Scolastica a Subiaco (secc. VI-XIV) (Roma, Campisano editore, 2015). She has participated in numerous research projects, as a researcher or scientific collaborator, of italian and foreign universities (Sapienza University of Rome, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, University of Palermo, Palackij University of Olomouc). Among these: Le vie del Gotico tra Stato della Chiesa e Regno di Sicilia (PRIN 2009); the MIUR National Order Program: Nuovi sistemi di fruizione del patrimonio medievale siciliano within the District of High Technology for Innovation in Cultural Heritage (PON03PE_00214_3, 2013-2015) and the research Teodolinda. I Longobardi all’alba dell’Europa in the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano. She is editor of the journal Arte Medievale (ANVUR-A) and is a member of the scientific committee for the Unesco nomination Il paesaggio culturale degli insediamenti benedettini nell’Italia medievale as scientific representative for the monasteries of Subiaco.
In 2017 she obtained the National Academic Qualification as Associate Professor for the area 10/B1 (Art History). Since 2018 she is Research Associate in Medieval Art History (L-ART/01) at the Department Storia, Antropologia, Religioni, Arte e Spettacolo at Sapienza University of Rome.