A group of three talks by Mark GIROUARD architectural historian, who has studied relations between the arts during the period 1730-1760.
How did Rococo, which had started in France as a style of ornament, reach England? Once here. how was it adapted by English designers and architects?
1: The Slaughter
Coffee House Set
From the seventeen-thlrties. Slaughter's Coffee House in St. Martin's Lane. London, became the meeting place of a group of artists, writers, and actors fathered round Hogarth, who between them pioneered the Rococo style in England.
Vauxhall Gardens and the Anti-Palladians: December 18