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.
On Rio, see "Belles Lettres," The Westminster Review, 65 (January 1856), 290-312. George Eliot's library contained an Italian translation of Rio's Leonardo da Vinci e la sua Scuola by V. G. de Castro (Milan, 1856) and a copy of Rio's seminal De la poésie chrétienne (Paris, 1836); see Baker, No. 1831, 1832. On Pater, see Haight, p. 461. In 1870 George Eliot dined with Pater at Oxford (Letters, V, 100).
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