Associations to the word «Pentimento»

Wiktionary

PENTIMENTO, noun. The presence or emergence of traces of previous work or image, especially, of the same subject, originally in painting.

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire