The muscles of the suspended right arm, seen from the front. Red-chalk drawing, 17th century.

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A study of the suspended, right arm of Lodovico Cigoli's écorché model, known as La bella notomia, or Lo scorticato, with the half-curled hand that rests against the figure's hip. In another drawing in the same group, Wellcome Library catalogue no. 38055, a fuller view of the figure is seen, but the right hand is not drawn in detail. For further detail drawings of both arms of Cigoli's écorché, see Wellcome Library catalogue nos 38074i; 38076i-38078i. Cigoli's original wax model was produced around 1600 in Florence, with casts made from it soon after in bronze and plaster. The figure met with great popularity in its own time and casts have continued to be produced subsequently

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1 drawing : red chalk

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By an Italian hand

References note

Lawrence Price Amerson, Jr. The problem of the écorché: a catalogue raisonné of models and statuettes from the sixteenth century and later periods, Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1975, nos 6-12, pp. 153-181
Volker Krahn, ed. Von allen Seiten schön: Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, exhibition catalogue, Skulpturensammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin; Preui̊cher Kulturbesitz im Alten Museum, Berlin 1995, no. 124
Zofia Ameisenowa, The problem of the écorché and the three anatomical models in the Jagiellonian Library, tr. Andrzej Potocki, Wrocław 1963, p. 55, fig. 34
Roberto Paolo Ciardi and Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi, eds, Immagini anatomiche e naturalistiche nei disegni degli Uffizi: secc. xvi e xvii, exhibition catalogue, Gabinetto disegni e stampe degli Uffizi, lx, Florence 1984, no. 41, figs 38-39

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Wellcome Collection 38075i

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