Which books grew out of Hippolyte Taine’s lectures on art?

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Hippolyte Taine Taine, portrait by Léon Bonnat, 1889

Hippolyte Taine was appointed as a professor of aesthetics and the history of art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1864. The lecture courses he delivered during his 20-year tenure were subsequently published as books, including:

Philosophie de l’art (1865; The Philosophy of Art)
De l’idéal dans l’art (1867; "On the Ideal in Art")
His lectures on the philosophy of art in Italy (1866), the Netherlands (1868), and Greece (1869)1