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Pentimento
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In painting, a pentimento is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over". Sometimes the English form "pentiment" is used, especially in old
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck (1434). Among other changes made, the husband's face was higher by about the height of his eye, the wife's was higher, and her eyes looked more to the front. Each of the husband's feet was underdrawn in one position, painted in another, and then overpainted in a third. These alterations can be seen in infra-red reflectograms.
The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck (1434). Among other changes made, the husband's face was higher by about the height of his eye, the wife's was
The face of the woman in the image The Old Guitarist is painted over. These marks would not usually be described as pentimenti as the subjects are tot
The face of the woman in the image The Old Guitarist is painted over. These marks would not usually be described as pentimenti as the subjects are totally different
Jacques de Norvins by Ingres
Jacques de Norvins by Ingres
Caravaggio's The Cardsharps
Caravaggio's The Cardsharps
Palimpsest
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In textual studies, a palimpsest is a manuscript page, either from a scroll or a book, from which the text has been scraped or washed off in preparation for reuse in the form of another document. Parc
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…as pentimenti, whilst others treat each area that has been changed as a single pentimento. The word pentimento is occasionally used synonymously with palimpsest, but strictly the latter is used for documents and parchments which, due to obsolescence, have been reused. A portrait of Jacques de Norvins was painted…
The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a Greek manuscript of the Bible from the 5th century, is a palimpsest.
The Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a Greek manuscript of the Bible from the 5th century, is a palimpsest.
A Georgian palimpsest from the 5th or 6th century
A Georgian palimpsest from the 5th or 6th century
Codex Nitriensis, with Greek text of Luke 9:22–33 (lower text)
Codex Nitriensis, with Greek text of Luke 9:22–33 (lower text)
Codex Nitriensis, with Syriac text (upper text)
Codex Nitriensis, with Syriac text (upper text)