The harbinger of the Baroque period in artistic and aesthetic forms was the Mannerist style from Italy. The Counter-Reformation which came about as a result of the Council of Trent (1545-1563) would mark a road towards a deeper Christian spirituality in contrast to the humanism of the Renaissance. Throughout the 17th century, there was a prevalence in architecture of models of sober Jesuit churches with an profuse decoration. In painting and sculpture there was a tendency to reinforce the muscular quality of the figures, to exaggerate foreshortening and to emphasise movement. Musical compositions became richer and more elaborate. In literature, this is the time of the picaresque novel, of the confrontation between conceptual and culturalist poetry, between Golden Age drama and the theological tract.