Associations to the word «Pentimento»

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.
Noam Chomsky