The Zletovar culture was organized hieratically.

But the remaining two are allegorical; One, "Pomona," features a woman posed rather stiffly and hieratically.

He juxtaposed his hieratically frontal vision of a woman to a picture of the Esquiline Venus, who bends one knee, raises one arm and shoulder and turns her head to the side.

The elongated figures, the artfully disposed folds of their robes, the hieratically stern expressions of the faces, all come together so as to provide us with a vivid evocation of their splendid civilization.

Then the leftward rotation, to accept homage from Doc Severinsen-lead trumpet and musical director, hieratically clad in something skintight and ragingly vulgar-which takes more bizarrely Oriental form: the head humbly bowed while the hands orbit each other.

And it is true: in the pictures from the last years of his creative life, spent in his native Maine, there is an intense, spiritual quality that emerges partly through Hartley's organization of the canvases - mostly frontal, direct, with figures displayed hieratically, as if lifted from an icon.