The pyramid is a stable structure, and a group of figures arranged in a pyramid shape on a plane surface usually results in a stable composition. Even when the forms are busy and involved, the overall impression is of rightness, solidity and permanence. These examples are chosen from work done in several periods from the Renaissance to the present.
Rossi 1528:
Rossi 1528:
El Greco 1575:
Van der Burch 1650:
Fragonard 1780:
Delacroix 1862:
Botero 1973:
Buffett* 2006:
* "Pauline Street Breakdown"
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