1) American biography 2) Painting 3) Picture
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A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his or her mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word is Italian for repentance, from the verb pentirsi, meaning to repent. ==Significance== Pentimenti may show that a composition origi...
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[book] Pentimento: A Book of Portraits is a fictional 1973 memoir by American writer Lillian Hellman. ==Film adaptation== The Oscar-winning film Julia was based on one chapter of Pentimento. Following the film`s release in 1977, New York psychiatrist Muriel Gardiner claimed she was the basis for the title character. Hellman denied that the ...
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revealing of part of a painting beneath a newer one
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(from Italian pentirsi: `to repent`), in art, the reappearance in an oil painting of original elements of drawing or painting that the artist tried ...
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A reappearance of a design, a drawing or a picture that has been painted over; It is a phenomenon pa
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A condition of old paintings where lead-containing pigments have become more transparent over time, revealing earlier layers.
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Pentimento is a term for what occurs when the coatings of oil paint become more translucent over time due to a change in the refractive index of the medium.
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A condition of old paintings where lead-containing pigments have become more transparent over time, revealing earlier layers.
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noun 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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