Inspired by the art of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, Renaissance artists created paintings and sculptures seeking to depict the visible world and adhered to the mathematical principles of proportionality, harmony and perspective.
Escaping the closed forms and classicism of a previous epoch, Baroque and Rococo architects and sculptors sought new dimensions of expression and created sumptuous works full of scenic innovations and movements. In their search for new effects in the treatment of color and space, painters continued to interpret religious content, but they also introduced novelties into landscape, portraiture, and nature.
Explanation:
In the eighteenth century, the Baroque spreads across the Alps where it reaches its incredible peak in the form of Rococo.
Thanks to the sumptuous art of the European courts and the papal Rome, so called civic art was born, more turned to the reality of everyday life then classical values, which in Venice and Flanders gained the first centers of its development.
The children are being generous. They basically put a lot of effort into getting a present for Helen. And look! At the very beginning of the excerpt we can see that they are “delighted”; they are happy to be giving this present to Hellen!
