Pollice Verso (from Latin: with a turned thumb) is an 1872 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiator.

Gérôme's painting greatly popularized the idea that thumbs up signaled life, and thumbs down signaled death, for a defeated gladiator. The gesture is used in many movies about Ancient Rome, including the 2000 film Gladiator, in which the Roman emperor Commodus uses a thumbs-up to spare the life of the film's hero, Maximus.

2010年8月6日 · The painting is said to have been the catalyst for Ridley Scott’s film Gladiator, and currently there is a new mini-series based on the same theme: Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

2022年3月4日 · Pollice Verso (from Latin: with a turned thumb) is a painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiators. The gesture on the painting is given by the Vestals to the victorious murmillo, awaiting the decision on the beaten retiarius at the Colosseum.

The Spoliarium is a painting by Filipino painter Juan Luna. Luna, working on canvas, spent eight months completing the painting which depicts dying gladiators. The painting was submitted by Luna to the Exposición Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1884 in Madrid, where it garnered the first gold medal (out of three). [1]

These images offer insight into gladiatorial armaments and training and the structure of the fights in the amphitheater. Gladiators were grouped according to the types of weaponry and armor (armaturae) they used, each requiring its own strategy and fighting style.

2018年7月26日 · Pollice Verso, a Latin phrase meaning “with a turned thumb,” is the title of Jean-Léon Gérôme’s masterful work, depicting a gladiator duel in the heart of the Roman Coliseum. Gérôme, a renowned artist known for his historical narrative paintings, started this painting before 1869 but temporarily stopped working on it during the Franco-Prussian War.

2010年9月7日 · Take Gérôme’s most influential painting, Pollice Verso, in which a triumphant gladiator towers over his opponent in a stadium surrounded by onlookers and the bodies of other defeated foes.

2018年7月15日 · Paris Bordone’s curious Gladiator Camp from about 1560 shows what appears to be gladiatorial training taking place immediately outside the Colosseum. This is one of the few paintings in which other classical buildings have been visually reconstructed, but oddly the Colosseum itself is depicted in a ruinous state.

A Roman gladiator painted on a glass beaker, from Roman Egypt, found in Begram, It dates to the 1st century AD and is part of the Begram Treasure, Afghanistan, Guimet Museum, Paris (49281012952).jpg 2,712 × 4,096; 15.99 MB