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Basic Info

First Air: January 21, 2014

Status: Ended

Seasons & Episodes

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Last Episode

Name: Madness

Season: 1, Episode: 3

Air Date: 2014-02-04

Runtime: 60 min

The last episode focuses on the Rococo's descent into madness. The 18th century is seen as the era of frivolity and enjoyment, but in an age of such decadence there was also the dark side.

Rococo: Travel, Pleasure, Madness

2014 1 seasons 3 episodes

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.