Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant (Hail Caesar! We Who Are about to Die Salute You), 1859. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Ruxton Love, Jr., B.A. 1925

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Jean-Léon Gérôme, Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant (Hail Caesar! We Who Are about to Die Salute You), 1859. Oil on canvas. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of Ruxton Love, Jr., B.A. 1925

REFERENCES:

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu’s book is an excellent survey of the period and is in print.

Used copies can also be found.

The exhibition catalogue by Laurence des Cars, Dominique de Font-Rélaux, and Edouard Papet, now out of print, is the best recent study.

Gerald M. Ackerman remains fundamental for the artist and the "Ave Caesar!"
 

Whiteley, Jon. “Jean-Léon Gérôme.” In Grove Art Online (by subscription only).
Nochlin, Linda. Realism. New York: Harmondsworth, 1971: 7–56.
Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. Nineteenth-Century European Art. New York: Prentice Hall, 2003: 217–45, 247–57.

des Cars, Laurence, Dominique de Font-Rélaux, and Edouard Papet. The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904). Exh. cat. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010–11: 25, 28–31, 113–16, 126, 128, 173–78.
Ackerman, Gerald M. The Life and Work of Jean-Léon Gérôme. London: Sotheby’s Publications, 1986: 54, 94, 112, 204–5.

Hopkins, Keith. “Murderous Games: Gladiatorial Contests in Ancient Rome.” History Today 33, no. 6 (1983).
Peplum: Images de l’Antiquité Cinema et BD.