 The style spread to the rest of Europe, and especially France gave a new direction in the late 17th century.Eventually it spread beyond Europe to the colonial possessions of the European powers, especially in Latin America and the Philippines.The Protestant Reformation had brought an almost total stop to religious sculpture in much of Northern Europe, and though secular sculpture, especially for portrait busts and tomb monuments, continued, the Dutch Golden Age has no significant sculptural component outside goldsmithing.