Gladiator

A gladiator (Latin: gladiator, "swordsman", from gladius, "sword") was a slave or professional fighter in ancient Rome.

Mosaics

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  Mosaic at the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid showing a retiarius named Kalendio (shown surrendering in the upper section) fighting a secutor named Astyanax. The Ø sign by Kalendio's name implies he was killed after surrendering.
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  A mosaic from Bignor Roman Villa.
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  The Gladiator Mosaic, on display at the Galleria Borghese, is one of the earliest known examples of contemporary art with gladiators as subjects.
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  The Zliten mosaic from Libya (Leptis Magna) c. 2nd century CE: A Thraex and murmillo, a hoplomachus and murmillo (who is signaling his defeat to the referee), and a matched pair.
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  Two venatores fighting a tiger. Mosaic in Great Palace of Constantinople.
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  Two fighting paegniarii represented in a mosaic from Nennig, Germany.

Pottery and Glass

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  Blue glass cup with gladiators fighting.
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  Helmet of a secutor depicted in a glass flask.
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  Oil lamp in the form of a gladiator.
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  2 Provocatores fighting on a oil lamp.
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  Murmillo defeats Thraex depicted on a flask.
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  Terracotta showing the fight hoplomachus vs. Thraex.
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  Murmillo fighting Thraex on an oil lamp.
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  Secutor's helmet as a form of oil lamp.
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  Terracotta plate with a scene of venatio.
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  Venator or hunter fighting a bear.

Weapons and Metalwork

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  Secutor depicted on head of a knife.
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  Gladiator depicted on head of a knife.
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  Venator fighting a wild boar.
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  Bronze goblet with scenes of gladiators fighting.

Reliefs and Paintings

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  The Amphitheatre at Pompeii, depicting the riot between the Nucerians and the Pompeians.
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  Secutor fighting a retiarius on the ground, text reads IMPROBVM (Roman relief 2nd century AD).
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  Secutor vs. retiarius, text reads VS SCOLASTICVS DAMASCENVS.
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  Secutor vs. retiarius.
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  Two female gladiators depicted on a relief from Halicarnassus.
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  Venator fighting a lioness (mural painting).

Modern art works

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  Jean-Léon Gérôme's Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant (1859).
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  Pollice Verso by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1872).
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  Dying gladiator by Fedor Bronnikov (1856).
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  Spoliarium by Juan Luna (1884) with a despoiling scene (where dead gladiators are stripped of weapons and garments).
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  Gladiadores después del combate, painting by José Moreno Carbonero (1882).
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  Il gladiatore by Nicolao Landucci (c. 1850).
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  Roman gladiators by Howard Pyle (1911).
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  Gladiatorenkampf by Joseph Stallaert (by 1903).
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  Gladiadores victoriosos ofreciendo las armas a Hércules guardián by Andrés Parladé (1884).
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  Lion in the arena by William Rimmer (1873/1876).