Pleasure

S1 E2: In the second episode, Waldemar will look at Pleasure in the Rococo age. A huge amount of Rococo's cultural energy was devoted to the pursuit of pleasure. For the first time in history, pleasure and happiness were seen as unalienable human rights that everyone was free to pursue and is reflected so poignantly in the art of Boucher, Watteau, Gainsborough, and Tiepolo. In its boundless search for delight it often went too far, but put crudely, Rococo art stopped tasting like medicine and started tasting like cakes.