Note 34 to Chapter 2 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Haight, pp. 324-25. The books in question are John Coindet, Histoire de la peinture en Italie: guide de l'amateur des beaux arts (1849; new edition, Paris: J. Renouard, 1856), and Franz Theodor Kugler, A Handbook of the History of Painting, from the Age of Constantin the Great to the Present Time, trans. Mrs. M. Hutton and ed. C. L. Eastlake (London: John Murray, 1842; 3d ed. 1855). Coindet's book is still in George Eliot's library; see Baker, No. 457.
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