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The Court of Gonzaga: Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster, 805 x 807 cm (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
With usura hath no man a house of good stone
each block cut smooth and well fitting
that design might cover their face,
with usura
hath no man a painted paradise on his church wall
harpes et luthes
or where virgin receiveth message
and halo projects from incision,
with usura
seeth no man Gonzaga his heirs and his concubines
no picture is made to endure nor to live with
but it is made to sell and sell quickly
Ezra Pound, from Canto XLV (1936)
The Court of Gonzaga (detail): Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
Usura -- section of Canto XLV: Ezra Pound holograph ms. (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
The Court of Gonzaga (detail): Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
Usura -- section of Canto XLV: Ezra Pound typescript (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
The Court of Gonzaga (detail): Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
Usura -- section of Canto XLV: Ezra Pound typescript (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
The Court of Gonzaga (detail): Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
Usura -- section of Canto XLV: Ezra Pound typescript (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
The Court of Gonzaga (detail): Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
The Court of Gonzaga (detail): Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
The north wall: The Court of Gonzaga: Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, walnut oil on plaster (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)
View of the west and north walls and ceiling with oculus (painted by Andrea Mantegna 1465-1474), Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua
Ceiling Oculus: Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506), 1465-74, fresco, diameter 270 cm (Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua)