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US
/ˌpɛntɪˈmɛntoʊ/
]
[ UK /pˌɛntɪmˈɛntəʊ/ ]
[ UK /pˌɛntɪmˈɛntəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
How To Use pentimento In A Sentence
- Their imagery of the painter's canvas implies an alternative, that of pentimento, or the eventual emergence of an underlying image in a painting that grows transparent with age.
- That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. The scandalous Lillian Hellman
- The myth becomes a dim pentimento, looming under a series of visuals painted one over the other.
- Technical investigations often reveal pentimento - a painting beneath another one - adding further grist to the academic mill.
- The way I'm painting now has a connection with an Italian expression, pentimento, which means ‘ghost image.’
- The drawing measures 36.8 x 41.3 cm and is executed in pen and ink over black chalk, with some additions in brush and wash, and with one pentimento executed onto a separate piece of paper, which has been glued to the principal folio.
