Muscleman

{{Short description|Any man with well-developed muscles}} {{about||the manga series|Kinnikuman}} {{distinguish|Mussulman (disambiguation){{!}}Mussulman}}

right|thumb|185px|A bodybuilder, Jacob Allmendinger, posing onstage during a competition. The pose is a variation of the "most muscular". [[Image:0 Écorché - Paulus Pontius - SNR - 3 PONTIUS - BNF (3).jpg|thumb|upright|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.<ref>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.</ref> 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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Category:Bodybuilding Category:Visual arts