Jean-Leon Gerome painted Pollice Verso in 1872. The title is Latin for thumbs turned - the signal to kill a defeated gladiator. A Vestal Virgin in the upper left leads the crowd's gesture. Gerome was a leading Orientalist and academic painter, and his gladiatorial paintings were enormously popular in the late 19th century. Photographs of this painting — not the original — were what inspired Ridley Scott's visual approach to Gladiator (2000). The original is at the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. About this triptych

Format: Three decks mounted side by side, each standing vertically — one panoramic composition across 70 × 85 cm

Material: Grade-A 7-ply Canadian maple — the same wood used in professional skate decks

Print: Gallery-quality UV print — no glass needed

Mounting hardware not included — purchase separately

Ships from Berlin — worldwide delivery in protective packaging

See all three-panel triptychs or two-panel diptychs (45 x 85 cm).