pentimento

• pentiment

Borrowed from Italian pentimento, from pentire (“to regret”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛn.tɪˈmɛn.təʊ/

pentimento (plural pentimenti)

1. (art) The presence or emergence of traces of previous work or image, especially of the same subject, originally in painting.
   • 2012, Lorraine T. Gilman, Princeton Pentimento, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 205:

     She thought of the painting in the shop, the pentimento. Her life, the one she had so carefully planned for herself had crumbled like the paint on the surface.

   • 2018, Peter Vandenabeele, Howell Edwards, Raman Spectroscopy in Archaeology and Art History, Royal Society of Chemistry (→ISBN), page 33:

     The identification of a pentimento in an artwork can occur in one of two ways: by analytical interrogation of the subsurface using penetrative radiation such as IRR or XRD, or by direct visual observation, where the overlaying paint has worn away […]

• pentimento on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From pentire.

• IPA^(key): /pen.tiˈmen.to/

pentimento m (plural pentimenti)

1. penitence, penance, repentance
2. remorse

   Synonyms: rammarico, rimpianto, rincrescimento

3. (art) pentimento

   Synonyms: cambiamento, rifacimento

• pentimento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana