All higher levels of society down to the bourgeoisie were imbued with the wish of the time for a basic and critical erudition. Literature, theatre and music became essential features of elite culture. Portraits of the enlightened times, including also the now intellectually-respected women, signal erudite noblesse as well as sentimental attitudes. The latter is grounded on a new individual sensualism toward the beauty of poetry and nature, made possible by abandoning the allegorisation of life and the environment. A rare and curious result of this movement, propagated also by Rousseau’s natural philosophy, is Johann Michael Millitz’s painting of a noble couple posing naked as Adam and Eve.