- The philosophic foundations of the intellectual revolution in the 17th and 18th century. The European Enlightenment (France, England, Germany).
- European Baroque: Italy, France, Nord Europe, Netherlands, Spain.
- Baroque and Antiquity.
- Rococo.
- Classicism in arts and literature (18th-19th c.).
- The Industrial Revolution and its consequences on the formation of the ideology of the 19th century.
- French and English liberalism.
- The Romantic Movement.
- The European avant-garde of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Bauhaus, Dadaism, Surrealism and their relation to the new living conditions and socio-economic changes (industrialism, urbanization, capitalism, consumerism).