Literally meaning repentance in Italian, what is the visible trace of an earlier painting beneath newer artwork on canvas?
Pentimento Pentimento A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed their mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word is Italian for "repentance," from the verb "pentirsi", meaning to repent. Pentimenti may show that a composition originally had an element, for example a head or a hand, in a slightly different place, or that an element no longer in the final painting was originally planned. The changes may have been done in the underdrawing of the painting, or by the visible layers of
Repentance in Judaism Repentance in Judaism Repentance (, literally, "return", pronounced "tshuva" or "teshuva") is one element of atoning for sin in Judaism. Judaism recognizes that everybody sins on occasion, but that people can stop or minimize those occasions in the future by repenting for past transgressions. Thus, the primary purpose of repentance in Judaism is ethical self transformation. A Jewish penitent is traditionally known as a "baal teshuva" ("lit.", "master of repentance" or "master of return") (; for a woman: , "baalat teshuva"; plural: , "baalei teshuva"). An alternative modern term is "hozer beteshuva" () ("lit.", "returning in repentance"). "In a place