Large kneeling statue of Hatshepsut c. 1479-58 B.C.E

    This sculpture was made of the pharaoh Hatshepsut who was not a male king she was actually a woman who ruled Egypt up to two decades. She had a huge influence on Egyptian art and had many temples made and sculptures of herself made. This is how Hatshepsut portrayed her royalty is through the different sculptures made in her honor. The image above is one of the many she had made of herself kneeling gifting the gods. These specific sculptures were lined outside of her mortuary temple that she had made carved out of a cliff face. Hatshepsut ruled during the New Kingdom ( C. 1550-1070 B.C.E) and adopted the older Egyptian style and that is why she is portrayed wearing the headdress, beard, small pronounced breasts, and broad shoulders. She wanted to be known as king therefore she was going to portray herself as a king. There were not a lot of women that ruled as kings in this time period and that's why Hatshepsut stood out so much because she really was enforcing her role as king. 

Arch of Constantine, 312-315 C.E

    There are several different arches in Rome and their job is to celebrate different military achievements or victories. This specific arch was made by Constantine to illustrate a victory over rivalry within the Roman Empire. Constantine had taken smaller older sculptures that weren't made by him and reused them within his arch. There was this list of emperors know as "good" emperors who Constantine liked to compare himself to. The arch has several different pieces that pretty much depict several different stories including his stance on Christianity, political stance within the Roman Empire, and his founding of Constantinople. The one portion of this arch that was made by Constantine wraps around the arch as to show his ruling and his story, which if compared to the other sculptures, was made with less detail and the style was overall different. This caused historians to believe it had some correlation to Christianity as far as his art style. Constantine also had the faces within these sculptures re-carved in his own image as if to illustrate himself as a better ruler. 

Some similarities between the two pieces of art as far as showing power and royalty would be the repetition of figures made to honor one emperor or pharaoh. Both Hatshepsut and Constantine had several sculptures formed out of their image to convey their power. Hatshepsut showed her power by adopting other Egyptian forms of art, like the image of what a king looks like and would transform herself into that same style. Constantine took other sculptures made by past rulers and re-carved their faces to resemble himself. This being said, Hatshepsut seems to be trying to fill the shoes as a king by taking on and following tradition as a male would be illustrated. Constantine is different in that sense because he re-carved the faces of these sculptures, which makes it look like he felt highly of himself and possibly better than those other emperors who ruled before him. 

https://smarthistory.org/arch-of-constantine-rome/

https://smarthistory.org/hatshepsut/