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Ecorche in Art, Medicine, History

By Uldis Zarins

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Article
Level
Intermediate
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Free
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Uldis Zarins explains the history and purpose of the ecorche, a flayed anatomical figure used since the Renaissance to study muscle over bone, and describes how his studio built a new, artist-oriented 3D ecorche reference model.