Definition of "pentimenti" []

• Plural form of pentimento. (noun)

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• "Caravaggio often changed his mind as he was painting and the resulting changes, or "pentimenti," on the canvas can be detected."
• "_Annunciation_, washed out the under layer with essential oil before making his "pentimenti" or corrections, and in this way the thinness was kept."
• "Witness an astonishing charcoal drawing, c. 1880-85, full of pentimenti and reconsiderations, of a dancer, arms flailing as she prepares for an "inside" turn; she spirals away from us, limbs extending to the corners of the sheet, unanchored, unstable, turning inert paper into pregnant space."