Pentimento

//ˌpɛntɪˈmɛntəʊ//

Synonyms for "pentimento" (1 found)

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Noun(1 words)

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Translations

13 translations across 11 languages.

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Basque

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Dutch

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

French

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  • repentir noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

German

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  • Pentiment noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)
  • Pentimenti noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)
  • Reuestrich noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Italian

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Norwegian Bokmål

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Polish

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Portuguese

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Slovene

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Spanish

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  • pentimento noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

Thai

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  • การแก้จิตรกรรม noun (presence of traces of a previous work in an artistic or literary work)

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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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She thought of the painting in the shop, the pentimento. Her life, the one she had so carefully planned for herself had crumbled like the paint on the surface.

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[T]he presence of a pentimento is an extremely valuable entity which supports the conclusion that a painting is an original composition – so, by inference, therefore, refuting any later suggestion that the painting could be the work of a copyist, who would have been engaged upon copying an existing painting as seen! The identification of a pentimento in an artwork can occur in one of two ways: by analytical interrogation of the subsurface using penetrative radiation such as IRR or XRD, or by direct visual observation, where the overlaying paint has worn away […]

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