The style of ‘regular irregularities’ – rococo gardens and their reception in Polish garden art of the 18th century

for many researchers distinguishing the rococo as an independent style which appears in various fields of art is not an unambiguous matter. The stylish distinction of the Rococo was evidenced in the nineteenth century by the German writer and art historian Anton Springer (1825-1891). Although many researchers accepted this thesis, after the First World War there was a retreat from this view. Many art historians have considered Rococo as the late phase of the Baroque or its variant. Nowadays, most researchers agree that Rococo was not a continuation of Baroque, but it instead took an opposite position. However, one can find many formal elements of the Baroque in the Rococo art1. discussion on the topic, though on a much smaller scale, was also under ta ken by researchers of garden art. Rococo gardens appeared and vanished from the works devoted to historic gardens. The Marguerite Charageat (1962) has m entioned