pentimento

• Termo usado na pintura para designar o reaparecimento de uma imagem oculta sob camadas de tinta, geralmente porque a tinta de cima se tornou translúcida com o tempo; também se refere à própria imagem ou marca visível que assim se revela.

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

   • 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.