Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness (Documentary, English)
Genres: Travel, History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2014-01-21
Ended: 2014-02-04
Network: BBC Four
Country: GB
Airs on: Tuesday
Air time: 21:00
Runtime: 60 minutes
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.