The seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries witnessed the development of the improvisational capriccio and artists such as Jacques Callot, Francisco Goya, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi invented variations on fantastic and dramatic themes in printed series.
Although scholars of the Revolution have disagreed on many things, the past fifty years have
witnessed strong agreement that one significant aspect of the ideas motivating the American Revolution was the Whig or Country party beliefs which supported the Glorious Revolution and then resisted the growth of monarchical power in the
eighteenth century.