Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness

Released: 2014-01-21

Runtime: 60 minutes

Episode Overview

This first episode is about travel in the 18th century and how it impacted greatly on some of the most famous art ever made. The Rococo was art expressing itself in new, exciting ways.

Series Overview

Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous. But Waldemar Januszczak disagrees and in this three-part series he tries to bring Rococo art closer to us, and argues that the Rococo was the age in which the modern world was born.