Thematic tours

Masterpieces of art history from which you can discover the historical relationships between cultural production, society and sustainable development.

Images of women reading, or holding a book in their hands, have been very common in European painting since the Renaissance. The book carries a symbolic charge of status, knowledge and distinction.

Transport yourself - as Baudelaire dreamed - to a country where "all is order and beauty / Luxury, calm and voluptuousness".

The common thread running through this tour is the ingenious devices, understood as machines or mechanical devices, which appear in the selected paintings. Often they are not the central theme of the painting; on the contrary, they are secondary objects that illustrate many of man's inventions to make life easier for himself.