Muscleman

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title: "Muscleman" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bodybuilding", "visual-arts"] description: "Any man with well-developed muscles" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscleman" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Any man with well-developed muscles ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Lukáš_Osladil.jpg" caption="A bodybuilder, Jacob Allmendinger, posing onstage during a competition. The pose is a variation of the "most muscular"."] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/0_Écorché_-Paulus_Pontius-SNR-3_PONTIUS-BNF(3).jpg" caption="Écorché by [[Paulus Pontius]]."] ::

Muscleman may denote any man with well-developed muscles, in particular a bodybuilder. In art-related and anatomical contexts, the term is also used for a model in wax (or, in modern times, of unbreakable plastic material) showing the muscles of a man. Such a figure showing the muscles of the human body without skin is also called écorché.

In popular culture

Muscleman is the translated title of Japanese manga series Kinnikuman. M.U.S.C.L.E. was a line of related collectible toy figures produced in the U.S. from 1985 to 1988.

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References

1. Roberta Panzanelli, ed., ''Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure, with a translation of Julius von Schlosser's History of Portraiture in Wax'' (Getty Publications, 2008), p. 277.

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