over-severely

Updated: May 21, 2025

Allowing for the Aretine biographer's well-known inaccuracies in matters of detail and for his royal disregard of chronological order faults for which it is manifestly absurd to blame him over-severely it would be unwise lightly to disregard or overrule his testimony with regard to matters which he may have learned from the lips of Titian himself and his immediate entourage.

Claude Phillips - The Later Works of Titian