ABSTRACT
WHILE it has sometimes been supposed that there was a fixed canon of proportions in Egyptian art, l the proportions of the human figure were in fact far from unchanging during the three thousand years of pharaonic history. During the New Kingdom, for instance, trends develop in the representation of the male figure which seem, to modem eyes at least, to have a feminizing effect. The object of this paper is to examine these trends and to demonstrate how they can be quantified so as to assess these apparent departures from the masculine.
