Roman Colosseum - Christian Martyrs and Lions
Jean-Léon Gérôme painted this oil-on-canvas - entitled The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer - in 1883. It depicts a scene in the Colosseum, at a time when Christians were killed by lions.
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