aesthete

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He added: "Carpenter is above all a brilliant aesthete, her videos and album artwork uniformly inspired."

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

Ludwig II of Bavaria was a zealous aesthete with enough personal wealth to treat part of what is now Germany as an architectural canvas.

From Salon • Jun. 22, 2025

His mannered but gracefully posed hands perhaps indicate the delicacy required for surgical prowess, as well as his nonprofessional demeanor as an art-collecting aesthete.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

The odes are so beautiful — and Keats’s image as a sensualist, an effete Romantic aesthete, so firmly established — that it is easy to overlook how philosophically accomplished and profound they are.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2021

The sun was the blessing of the morning, the one celebrating element, an aesthete with no purpose except to shed radiance.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles