Associations to the word «Pentimento»
Noun
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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
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.