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pentimento

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pen·ti·men·to  (pnt-mnt)
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 paenitre.]
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Noun1.pentimento - the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
painting, picture - graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre"


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