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!”