<span>Neoclassicism originally in Rome but its popularity exploded in France, as an generation of French and other European art students finished their training and returned from Rome to their home countries and with newly-rediscovered Greco-Roman.</span>
The Catholic Monarchs Isabella of Castile<span>, Queen of </span>Castile<span> and her husband </span>King Ferdinand<span>, King of </span>Aragon<span>, pursued a policy of joint rule of their kingdoms and created a single Spanish monarchy. </span>
religious leaders attempted to resolve the iconoclast controversy through the formation of religious councils. Specifically, the Council of Nicaea, which was attended by the delegates of Pope Adrian the I and came to the conclusion that that icons deserved reverence, but not adoring worship.
