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    What term for a traceable change made by an artist in the execution of a painting is related to a similar term for a converted gangster?

    Question #96367. Asked by Flem-ish. (Jun 05 08 12:54 PM)


    queproblema

    		pen·ti·men·to (pnt-mnt)
    n. pl. pen·ti·men·ti (-t)
    An underlying image in a painting, as an earlier painting, part of a painting, or original draft, that shows through, usually when the top layer of paint has become transparent with age.
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pentimento

    Someone who speaks Italian can tell us the word for a repentant mafioso.

    Jun 05 08, 7:33 PM
    zbeckabee

    		pentito di mafia

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentito

    Jun 05 08, 8:35 PM
    queproblema

    		Mama mia! Zee Beck parlare italiano!

    Grammar correction, courtesy Dra. Frankie.

    Zee Beck parla italiano.

    And I see I failed to paste in the etymology from my link. Voila!

    [Italian, correction, pentimento, from pentire, to repent, from Latin paenitre.]

    Good grief! I just saw #96376.
    I should have said, "Ecco!"


    Jun 05 08, 9:49 PM

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