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Like the hieroglyphs, the hieratic symbols changed over time but they underwent more changes with six distinct periods.
Hieroglyphs for writing and counting gave way to a hieratic script for both writing and numerals.
They seem to speak for a civilization, not just an artist, much like the stone heads on Easter Island or the hieratic statuary of Egyptian art.
By repeated incantation, the Five Conditions have acquired a hieratic authority.
Despite their loose execution, most of these single-figure compositions are rather stiff and hieratic.
Byzantine art is often criticized as flat, two-dimensional, hieratic, and unchanging.
Then from the inner room came the servants again, carrying two crowns like great hieratic tiaras, barbaric diadems, composed of pearls of the finest orient.
These hieratic figures have the monumentality of design, rigidly frontal and schematic, characteristic of Romanesque art.
This red ochre on the body is less the stigmata of a lost point than a kind of hieratic submission to the essence of the arena.
Combining hieratic qualities and symmetry, this mukoku drum can be considered as one of the masterpieces of the Yaka art.
The caryatids have evolved much since the Ancient Greeks, from a hieratic stance to the more lascivious and soft pose of the Wallace fountains.
Representing three hieratic standing figures placed on pedestals each in a separate stained glass panel.
Assisi titanic and monumental front where the light is lost, arrested by the hieratic of the figure.
This statuary marble mantel combines all the characteristics of the Empire style: the purity of straight lines, hieratic and architectural forms.
So Aristocratic and distant, hieratic and human, the artwork seems timeless and quite out of time.
By the time the 7th century Phnom Da style emerged, Khmer art had already adopted the hieratic frontality that was to become its hallmark.
The portrait is hieratic and true nobility emanates from this face.
Cantat throws himself about the stage like a madman, rushing, running, ranting and hurling himself to his knees, adopting hieratic postures as he roars his lyrics out over a wall of distorted guitars.
Art's noble past and uncertain future still meet in his frayed, beautiful, hieratic surfaces, which hark back to ancient idolatries and anticipate who knows what.
The same 'silvery night of September' can be found in Ciurlionis' The Kings with those hieratic characters, remarkably good and steadfast, in the middle of a forest under a midnight blue sky filled with twinkling stars.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Evidently this was a hieratic type, from which the artist was not allowed to depart.
The text of this very interesting story is found written in the hieratic character upon papyri which are preserved in Berlin.
The text is written in hieratic on papyrus, and is preserved in the Royal Museum, Leyden.
This papyrus is about 65 feet long, and the text is written in the hieratic character.
Out of this fact grew the larger significance of the demotic writing as contrasted with the hieratic or priestly writing.
It was hieroglyphics before 3000BC, and the hieratic alphabet shortly after this.
It was invariably written, like the hieratic, from right to left.
Showing the development into the hieratic or pen-formed Characters.
The hieratic, used by the priests and employed for sacred writings only.
The different scales are not meant to be hieratic to signify importance but more to show the outside of the body as subjective.
During the contact of that unexpected and lingering kiss Mr Verloc, gripping with both hands the edges of his chair, preserved a hieratic immobility.
Though he eventually disenthralled himself from Mallarme's influence, he carried his hieratic stance much further, and retained a spark of respect for his French namesake.
Their texts are written in different languages and scripts, including Hieroglyphs, Hieratic, Demotic,Aramaic, Greek, Coptic and Arabic.
The Hieratic, like the demotic, is always written from right to left.
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