curious, and the whimsical, expressed in plastic materials like carved wood and above all stucco (as in the work of the Wessobrunner School). Walls, ceiling, furniture, and works of metal and porcelain present a unified ensemble. The Rococo palette is softer and paler than the rich primary colors and dark tonalities favored in Baroque tastes. A few anti-architectural hints rapidly evolved into full-blown Rococo at the end of the 1720s and began to affect interiors and decorative arts throughout Europe. The richest forms of German Rococo are in Catholic Germany (illustration, above). Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in Great Britain. Inaugurated in some rooms in Versailles, it unfolds its magnificence in several Parisian buildings (especially the Hôtel Soubise)
In order to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Russian power the place got a new name Peter´s Square. A monument to Peter the Great was set up in the middle of the square. In 1923 the square was renamed Liberty Square. During the Soviet period it was called Victory Square. Parks The largest and probably the most beautiful park of Tallinn is Kadriorg. The park and palace were designed in Baroque style by the Italian architect Niccolo Michetti and built in the 1720s on the order of Peter the Great. In 1857 Tallinn was not a fort any more and the 17 th and 18th century fortifications were given to the municipality to lay out parks and public gardens. The Ingrian Bastion was turned into Harjumägi in 1860. The Swedish Bastion became a park in 1862. In the 1920s people started to call it Lindamägi after the sculpture of Linda by A.Weizenberg that was set up there in1920. The Wismar Ravelline and the filled up moat became a dendrological
hectares. Originally it was an are on the seashore featuring low meadows, shrub land and a few manor houses. In the 17th century most of the land was in the possession of Fonne, the Town Council's secretary. At the time the park was called Fonnenthal. A century later the name was changed to Yekaterinenthal after Yekaterina, wife of Peter I. Kadriorg Palace was designed in Baroque style by the Italian Niccoló Michetti and built in the 1720s on the order of Peter the Great in honour of his wife. The tsar himself is known to have laid three bricks in the foundation of the building. The palace was also planned to serve as a summer house for the tsar's family. For a long period, Kadriorg Palace housed the Art Museum of Estonia, but after thorough repairs over quite a few years it was finally opened as the Museum of Foreign Art in the summer of 2000. There is also a Baroque-style garden behind the palace.
6 beginning of the reign of Elizabeth II (1952), this figure increased almost fiftyfold, to some 250 million, the vast majority living outside the British Isles... ” [3, p.30] Then, in the eighteenth century, there was a vast wave of immigration from northern Ireland. The Irish had been migrating to America from around 1600, but the main movements took place during the 1720s, when around 50,000 Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants arrived. It was not only England which influenced the directions that the English language was to take in America, and later the USA. The Spanish had occupied large parts of the west and south-west. The French were present in the northern territories, around the St Lawrence River, and throughout the middle regions (French Louisiana) as far as the Gulf of Mexico. The Dutch were in New York (originally New Amsterdam) and the surrounding area
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