From the modern age and the publication of works such as Il Cortigiano, by Baldassare di Castiglione, instruction and culture will be rising values ​​to bolster the prestige of the wellbeing classes, so art collecting will be seen as a sign of refinement. Music, as a liberal art, was already traditionally twinned with science, and all treaties of civility and good manners have been considered a praxis of good education, even for women. The art of poetry was also liberal, and as a poet he portrays Fede Galizia to Paolo Morigia.

Finally, the modern world will already be that of science, and some women find themselves in it, such as botany, entomologist and cartoonist Maria Sibylla Merian, or mathematician Emilie du Châtelet and Marie-Anne de Lavoisier, a collaborator of her husband, who gave her the name but not fame or the right to be considered the "mother" of modern chemistry.