Dr. Jessica Leay Ambler

About Dr. Jessica Leay Ambler

Dr. Jessica L. Ambler holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a specialization is Roman architecture. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at UCSB and a Curatorial Assistant at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. She is now the Head of Research for the Heller Group, an art advisory in New York.

Second Style painting, cubiculum (bedroom), Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, 50–40 B.C.E., fresco (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) — Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii two millennia ago—creating a time capsule of the evolution of Roman painting.

Roman wall painting styles

Temple of Portunus (formerly known as Fortuna Virilis), travertine, tufa, and stucco, c. 120-80 B.C.E. — Concrete, arches, and vaulting allowed the Roman Empire to become an engineering and architectural marvel.

An introduction to ancient Roman architecture

Colossal statue restored as Oceanus: “Marforio,” marble, 242 cm (Roman), 1st - 2nd century CE (Captioline Museums) — With the lands of Greece, Egypt, and beyond, Ancient Rome was a melting pot of cultures.

Introduction to ancient Roman art