Crossword clues for pentimento
Wiktionary
n. The presence or emergence of traces of previous work or image, especially, of the same subject, originally in painting.
WordNet
n. the reappearance in a painting of an underlying image that had been painted over (usually when the later painting becomes transparent with age)
[also: pentimenti (pl)]
Wikipedia
A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his or her mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word is Italian for repentance, from the verb pentirsi, meaning to repent.
Pentimento: A Book of Portraits is a 1973 book by American writer Lillian Hellman. It is best known for the controversy over the authenticity of a section about an anti-Nazi activist called "Julia", which was later made into the film Julia. Muriel Gardiner, a wealthy American who went to medical school in Vienna before World War II and became involved in anti-Fascist resistance there before her return to the US in 1939, suggested that her life story was fictionalized as Julia.
Pentimento is an American punk rock band from Buffalo, New York.
Usage examples of "pentimento".
Non potevo certo recitare la parte del pentimento che avevo deliberatamente respinto e contro la quale mi ero corazzato.
Tutto quello che credo di aver capito sono queste parole: «Visto che tutto quanto è accaduto non ti ha indotto al pentimento, ora morrai.
Così, quando Venerdì ritornò, presi a parlargli della redenzione dell'uomo ad opera di Cristo Salvatore del Mondo, dell'insegnamento evangelico e della sua origine divina, cioè del pentimento verso Dio e della nostra fede nel nostro santissimo Signore Gesù.