Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness - Season 1 (2014)

Following the grandeur of Baroque, Rococo art is often dismissed as frivolous and unserious. 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 facets of the Rococo period – Travel, Pleasure and Madness – Waldemar celebrates the finest cultural achievements of the period and examines the drives and underlying meanings that make them so prescient.