By the time of the Roman empire, what other part of life had art become strongly tied to?

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By the time of the empire, the Roman conception of art had become allied with the political ideal of service to the state. In the Augustan period (30 BC-AD 14) there was an attempt to combine realism with the Greek feeling for idealization and abstract harmony of forms. This modification is seen in the famous Augustus from Prima Porta (Vatican), which represents the first of a long series of the distinctly Roman type of portrait.