Yes, I actually have more to say about religion.

The thing I found the most interesting about Imperial Art vs Republican Art was that during the Imperial era they began add different statues and imprints of the gods on Imperial buildings instead of simply having gods as statues simply to give respect to the different gods. At first, I thought that this was a bit presumptuous. The Emperor is saying that he is a god too. You would think that he would be struck by lightening. Then, I happened to notice an American dollar that was still in my purse, and I remembered the "In God We Trust," and that's when I started to think that my impression was not correct. This could be simply just to say that the gods approve of or have chosen this man to be emperor. I think that the American government has decided to keep this on it's dollar bills, perhaps for a similar reason, to say that the United States is trusts God. This gives people reassurance that the government is going to follow God (or at least maybe it used to give people reassurance).

This is when I began to think about how even though it did seem that Rome had regressed when they lost their republic but in some ways the art was still based off the other. Like for example if the Roman Republic had never copied so many statues of the Greek originals of the gods, I doubt the gods would've looked like they did and maybe would have never been created and therefore not had the same meaning for people. Then, I think about how it's almost like the United States uses this idea from Imperial Rome of using the gods or in this case God, to show that a government is justified in its actions, its power.