Pollice Verso (1872), which popularized the "thumbs down" gesture. Oil on canvas. A Roman emperor in the Colosseum makes the famous thumbs down gesture. Painting by the artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.

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Size: 2425px × 1630px
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