pen·ti·men·to
(p n t -mn t )
n. pl. pen·ti·men·ti (-t
 )
An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting,
part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top
layer of paint has become transparent with age.
[Italian, correction, pentimento, from
pentire, to repent, from Latin paenit
re.] |
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Kristin knows about the pentimento under DaVinci's Mona Lisa.
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