page_title: Écorché
hierarchical_section_title: Écorché
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: «&#160;Écorché&#160;», burin (H. 33 cm&#160;; l. 21,8 cm) réalisé d'après Pierre Paul Rubens après 1640 par Paulus Pontius également connu sous le nom de Paul Dupont. - Gravure N° SNR - 3 PONTIUS de la Bibliothèque nationale de France de Paris. Photographie réalisée lors de l'exposition temporaire l'Europe de Rubens - Musée du Louvre-Lens). English: "Écorché" chisel (H. 33 cm. L 21.8 cm) realized after Peter Paul Rubens after 1640 by Paulus Pontius. - Engraving No. SNR - 3 PONTIUS of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris . Photograph taken during the exhibition Rubens Europe - Louvre Museum .
context_page_description: An écorché 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.
context_section_description: An écorché ([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.
caption: Écorchéchisel (H. 33 cm. L 21.8 cm) realized after Peter Paul Rubens after 1640 by Paulus Pontius. - Engraving No. SNR - 3 PONTIUS. Photograph taken during the exhibition Rubens Europe - Louvre Museum .
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