Pollice Verso, or even the Turned Thumb, grew to become a painting which was reputedly employed as the main inspiration for that movie Gladiator. The painting portrays the drama from the gladiatorial spectacle.was commissioned by Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan and Leonardo’s patron during his 1st remain in that town, to the Dominican monastery of

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