pentimento
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pentimento
- /ˌpɛntɪˈmɛntəʊ/ UK
- /ˌpɛntəˈmɛntoʊ/ US
- [-ɾə-] US
- [-ɾoʊ] US
- /ˌpɛntɪˈmɛnti/ UK
- /ˌpɛntəˈmɛnti/ US
- [-ɾi] US
Rhymes with -ɛntəʊ
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[Alt: A blue-tinted painting of a man's bent neck, with a faint image of a woman's face in its background]
Learned borrowing from Italian pentimento (“repentance, penance, penitence; remorse; change of opinion; correction; traces of a previous image or work in an artwork”), from pentìrsi (“to repent; to regret”) + -mento (suffix forming nouns representing the actions of verbs to which it is attached). Pentìrsi is derived from Latin paenitēre, the present active infinitive of paeniteō (“to cause to repent; to repent; to be sorry, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hate; to hurt”).
noun pentimenti · pentimentos
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The presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work; especially (painting) an image which has been painted over but is still detectable.
The companion of this picture is the Madonna dressing the Infant, with Joseph planing a board in the back-ground; a performance though inferior in style to the former, not less original from the pentimenti still discoverable in the two principal figures.
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noun presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work
| Español | pentimento |
|---|---|
| Português | pentimento |
| Français | repentir |
| Deutsch | Pentimenti, Pentiment, Reuestrich |
| Italiano | pentimento |
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