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    Roman Gladiator is an outdoor 1881 bronze sculpture by Gustave Georges (Joris) Theodore Geefs (20 November 1850 – 4 December 1933), the son of Joseph...
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    Commons has media related to Borghese Gladiator. The Borghese Gladiator is a Hellenistic life-size marble sculpture portraying a swordsman, created at Ephesus...
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    Dying Gaul (redirect from Dying Gladiator)
    Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from...
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    French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, featuring the eponymous Roman gesture directed to the winning gladiator. The thumbs-down gesture in the painting is given by...
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    Commodus as Hercules (category Roman sculpture portraits of emperors)
    117. Adams, Geoff W. The Emperor Commodus: Gladiator, Hercules or a Tyrant?, 2013. Hekster, Olivier. "The Roman Empire after His Death." A Companion to Marcus...
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    Cestus (boxing) (category Roman personal weapons)
    Ancient Greek: Kεστός) is a battle glove that was sometimes used in Roman gladiatorial events. It was based on a Greek original, which employed straps called...
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    Spartacus (category Roman gladiators)
    Spartacus (Ancient Greek: Σπάρτακος, romanized: Spártakos; Latin: Spartacus; c. 103–71 BC) was a Thracian gladiator (Thraex) who was one of the escaped...
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    Roman art The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work. Luxury...
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    Colosseum (redirect from Roman Colosseum)
    used for gladiatorial contests and public spectacles including animal hunts, executions, re-enactments of famous battles, dramas based on Roman mythology...
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    Discobolus (category Roman copies of 5th-century BC Greek sculptures)
    Myron's Discobolus as a Wounded Gladiator who supports himself on his arm as he sinks to the ground; the completed sculpture was donated before 1734 by Pope...
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    demise. The Romans thought gladiator contests had originated with funeral games and sacrifices. Some of the earliest styles of gladiator fighting had...
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    was forced to sell the Borghese Roman sculptures and antiquities to the Emperor. The result is that the Borghese Gladiator, renowned since the 1620s as the...
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    Galea (helmet) (redirect from Roman helmet)
    "weasel, marten") was a Roman soldier's metal helmet, most famously worn by the heavy infantry of the legions. Some gladiators, specifically murmillo (myrmillo)...
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    Borghese Collection (category Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities in the Louvre)
    The Borghese Collection is a collection of Roman sculptures, old masters and modern art collected by the Roman Borghese family, especially Cardinal Scipione...
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    Ancient Rome (redirect from Ancient Roman)
    built in 70 AD under the Roman emperor Vespasian and opened in 80 AD to host other events and gladiatorial combats. Gladiators had an exotic and inventive...
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    Raymond Roman Thierry Polański (né Liebling; born 18 August 1933) is a French and Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient...
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    The Rape of Proserpina (category Sculptures of Roman goddesses)
    translated as The Abduction of Proserpina, is a large Baroque marble group sculpture by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, executed between 1621 and 1622...
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    David (Bernini) (category 1620s sculptures)
    had sculptures been involved in their surroundings like those of Bernini. A likely source for Bernini's figure was the Hellenistic Borghese Gladiator. The...
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    Farnese Collection (category Hellenistic sculpture)
    artistic items from Greco-Roman antiquity. It includes some of the most influential classical works, including the sculptures that were part of the Farnese...
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    Eboracum (redirect from Roman York)
    December 2010). "Roman Gladiator Beneath Yorkshire Museum". Archived from the original on 5 April 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2013. "Roman gladiator skeleton found...
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    Las Incantadas (category Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures in the Louvre)
    enchanted ones") is a group of Roman sculptures from a portico dating to the second century AD that once adorned the Roman Forum of Thessalonica in Northern...
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    Messalina (category 1st-century Roman empresses)
    based on a famous Greek sculpture by Cephisodotus the Elder of Eirene carrying the child Ploutos, of which there were other Roman imitations. Some of the...
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    Cenotaph of Saint Hubert of Liège, Basilica of Saint-Hubert (1847) The Roman Gladiator, located opposite the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco...
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    uprising started in southern Italy under Spartacus, a gladiator, who defeated the local Roman garrisons and four legions under the consuls of 72. At...
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    nickname Caligula (/kəˈlɪɡjʊlə/), was Roman emperor from AD 37 until his assassination in AD 41. He was the son of the Roman general Germanicus and Augustus'...
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    Glyptothek (category Collections of classical sculpture)
    King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures (hence γλυπτο- glypto- "sculpture", from the Greek verb γλύφειν glyphein "to carve"...
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    including Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Caligula. Not until Gladiator did the Roman epic return to the cinema. In this movie, the salute is notably...
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    The history of the Roman Empire covers the history of ancient Rome from the traditional end of the Roman Republic in 27 BC until the abdication of Romulus...
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    Petra (redirect from Petra Roman Road)
    poetry readings and dramas. Gladiator fights were also said to be held here and attracted the most audience, although no gladiator was able to gain any momentum...
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  • Siren (redirect from Siren (sculpture))
    The Siren (sculpture), a 2005 sculpture by Norman J. Gitzen Siren (bronze sculpture), Roman bronze sculpture ca. 1571–90 The Sirens (sculpture), an 1887...
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