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What (who) is écorché - definition

DRAWING OF A PERSON THAT SHOWS THEIR MUSCLES UNDER THE SKIN
Ecorche; Ecorché; Écorché figure; Echorche; Ecorche figure; Ecourche
  • Terracotta ''Anatomical study'' by [[Willem van den Broecke]],1563

ecorche         
[??k?:'?e?]
¦ noun (plural pronounced same) a painting or sculpture of a human figure with the skin removed to display the musculature.
Origin
Fr., lit. 'flayed'.
Ecorche         
·noun A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

Wikipedia

Écorché

An écorché (French pronunciation: ​[ekɔʁʃe]) is a figure drawn, painted, or sculpted showing the muscles of the body without skin, normally as a figure study for another work or as an exercise for a student artist. The Renaissance-era architect, theorist and all-around Renaissance man, Leon Battista Alberti, recommended that when painters intend to depict a nude, they should first arrange the muscles and bones, then depict the overlying skin.

Some of the first well known studies of this kind were performed by Leonardo da Vinci, who dissected cadavers and created detailed drawings of them. However, there are some accounts of this same practice taking place as far back as ancient Greece, though the specifics are not known.