PENTIMENTO (pentimenti)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: pentimenti   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pentimento mean? 

• PENTIMENTO (noun)
  The noun PENTIMENTO has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PENTIMENTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENTIMENTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("pentimento" is a kind of...):

painting; picture (graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface)