Tales As Old As Time Modern Egyptian Classics: Cleopatra's Needle,Victor H. Bisharat Architecture and Sol LeWitt Painting Charles A. Platt, Architect Obelisk Greenwich, Connecticut Victor H. Bisharat, Architect GTE Building Stamford, Connecticut Sol Lewitt, Artist| Pyramid Mural The Brooklyn Museum New York, New York Only one part of vast ancient Egyptian funerary complexes composed of religious temples and other geometry-based structures, pyramids were designed in close proximity with Egyptian royal palaces. While popularly associated with the architecture of ancient Egypt, the stylistic influence of the triangular-shaped pyramid (typically four-sided but designs are also known to have eight sides) has traversed the the span of time, and the boundaries of geography, in adaptations of the traditional pyramid form in interdisciplinary works of fine and applied art in design, painting, and architecture.
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