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unusual facts about Aesthetic Movement



Bedford Park, London

The first architect for the estate was Edward William Godwin a leading member of the Aesthetic Movement, but his plans came in for some criticism in The Builder, the leading professional journal of its day, and Godwin and Carr parted company.

Daphnephoria

Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience, a comic opera about the Aesthetic Movement which references Frederic Leighton's painting of the festival.

St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden

When the church extension work was carried out, the floor was covered with ceramic tiles designed by Edward William Godwin and the walls decorated with 1881 wall paintings in the Aesthetic Movement style by Heaton, Butler and Bayne that depict the Nativity, the Four Evangelists and the Prophets.


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Hermann Häfker

His work can be seen as part of the aesthetic movement initiated by Deutscher Werkbund and Dürerbund.