| 1. | Early Art | .........................e.............. |
| 2. | Dawn of Renaissance | .....a................/....\........g.. |
| 3. | Height of Renaissance | ........\............/.........\f/...... |
| 4. | Decadent Renaissance | ..........\...c__/d.................. |
| 5. | Modern | ..........b\./.......................... |
| a. | Sordello—1840. |
| b. | Pippa Passes—1841. |
| c. | My Last Duchess—1842. |
| d. | The Bishop orders his Tomb—1845. |
| e. | Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day—1850. |
| f. | The Statue and the Bust—1855. |
| g. | Old Pictures in Florence—1855. |
III. Poetic functions of the references to sculpture.
. . . “Born just now,
With the new century, beside the glow
And efflorescence out of barbarism;
Witness a Greek or two from the abysm
That stray through Florence-town with studious air,
Calming the chisel of that Pisan pair:
If Nicolo should carve a Christus yet!”