pentimento

• Nom désignant la réapparition dans un tableau d'une image cachée qui avait été recouverte par une couche de peinture, généralement lorsque la couche supérieure devient transparente avec le temps.

A noun referring to the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over, typically when the later paint layer becomes transparent with age.

1. Reappearance of an earlier imageC2formalart

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

   Pentimento (réapparition d'une image sous-jacente)

   • The art restorer discovered a pentimento beneath the top layer of paint.
   • X-ray analysis revealed a pentimento of a different composition.
   • The pentimento showed that the artist had originally painted a different figure.