Cover picture – Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), La Renommée annonçant dans les airs l’arrivée du roi Henri III. © Culturespaces / Nicolas Héron
See https://www.gazette-drouot.com/article/le-musee-jacquemart-andre-fait-peau-neuve/52560
Judgment A sound like rustling or birds twittering, a congregation around the edge of sky, not watching but busy amongst themselves, taking notice occasionally of what happens beneath their gaze, yet within it, for now they know all, see all – Olympian gods, stacked on that high periphery, Tiepolo’s bright but distant gathering, beyond our ken – our deserted kith and kin.
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OED Verses, poetry, ‘song’. Harping, n., 3. In Oxford English dictionary. (Retrieved October 12, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/1037643115)
1819 And yet my harpings will unfold a tale. Lord Byron, Proph. Dante i. 144
1854 The evil spirit..charmed to rest by the harpings of his muse. H. Reed, Lectures on British Poets (1857) ix. 323 Oxford University Press.
