Men engaged in this profession are the subject of a painting featuring a red banner with a crow facing the Sun that hangs underneath two red columns topped by gold eagle statues.
Men engaged in this profession are the subject of a painting featuring a red banner with a crow facing the Sun that hangs underneath two red columns topped by gold eagle statues. Interior scenes showing groups of these people were painted by Giorgio de Chirico for the living room of Léonce Rosenberg. In a painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, three men use candlelight to look upon a copy of an Agasias of Ephesus work showing one of them. That sculpture was the basis for Watson in Watson and the Shark and is named for the (*) Borghese family. A painting of these people shows a trident laying flat on the dirt beside a man who reaches up desperately at a row of Vestal Virgins making the titular gesture, Pollice Verso, which means "with a turned thumb." That Jean-Léon Gérôme work shows another of these men with a golden helmet preparing to kill his opponent in front of a crowd of Romans. For 10 points, name these slaves who fought in the Coliseum.
Men engaged in this profession are the subject of a painting featuring a red banner with a crow facing the Sun that hangs underneath two red columns topped by gold eagle statues.
gladiators [prompt on any less specific answers describing people who fight, like warriors]