PENTIMENTO

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: pentimenti   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pentimento" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)

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