courtly-phrased

Updated: May 4, 2025

Rubens is now only a 'healthy, worthy, kind-hearted, courtly-phrased animal. But the fault lies as much at the door of the time, as at that of the man. The Reformation had come and gone. The reformers had cast out the errors, and rent in twain the fallacies of the Roman Catholic Church. Then came a standing still; a paralysis of religion.

Dutton Cook - Art in England: Notes and Studies