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Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness

Waldemar Januszczak

Lidia Ciszewska

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Waldemar Januszczak looks at travel in the 18th century and how it impacted on art.

Waldemar Januszczak re-examines Rococo art. He looks at travel in the 18th century and how it impacted on art, from Bavarian pilgrimage architecture to Canaletto's Venice.

Following the grandeur of Baroque, Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous and unserious, but Waldemar Januszczak disagrees. In this three-part series he re-examines Rococo art and argues that the Rococo was actually the age in which the modern world was born. Picking three key territories of Rococo achievement - travel, pleasure and madness - Waldemar celebrates the finest cultural achievements of the period and examine the drives and underlying meanings that make them so prescient.

The first episode is about travel in the 18th century and how it impacted greatly on some of the finest art ever made. The world was getting smaller and took on new influences shown in the glorious Bavarian pilgrimage architecture, Canaletto's romantic Venice and the blossoming of exotic designs and tastes all over Europe. The Rococo was art expressing itself in new, exciting ways.

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Waldemar Januszczak celebrates the finest cultural achievements of the Rococo period.

Series in which Waldemar Januszczak re-examines Rococo art and argues that the Rococo was actually the age in which the modern world was born.

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