Detailed, illustrated, examination of the system of proportion used in Egyptian art, based on standardisation of the natural relations of various parts of human anatomy.
Erik Iversen was an eminent Danish Egyptologist. Born in Copenhagen he was educated at the University of Copenhagen and then studied at Berlin, Oxford and University College London. His particular interests were in Egyptian art and literature and its reception in Europe from classical antiquity through to Romanticism. His publications focused on papyri, philological and lexicographical studies. He died 5 July 2001.
