the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
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Like a pentimento, New Orleans has long been a canvas repeatedly repainted.
From the time.com
Horizontal blue stripes interact against a pentimento, or underpainted, layer of verticals, a precursor to his career-defining black paintings.
From the newsobserver.com
During the 2007 restoration, conservators uncovered Foster's use of pentimento, a technique that gives the weapons a 3-D illusion and sense of movement.
From the washingtonpost.com
So what is it about this phrase that it survives through oral tradition, like a pentimento on a canvas or a footprint in the sand, when so much else has not?
From the stltoday.com
- The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
- A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word derives from the Italian '''', meaning to repent.
- Pentimento: A Book of Portraits is a 1973 autobiographical book by American writer Lillian Hellman, which details the author's relationship with Julia, a woman who resisted the Nazis in pre-war Germany.
- Pentimento is the 2002 debut album by singer Jessica Molaskey performing standards of the 1920s and 1930s. She is joined by an all-star cast of musicians, including her husband John Pizzarelli, father-in-law Bucky Pizzarelli, violinist Johnny Frigo and her brother-in-law, Martin Pizzarelli.
