That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The scandalous Lillian Hellman] Reference

Such veils would be susceptible to pentimento over time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak Blues] Reference

I merely propose an interpretation of literary pentimento.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beowulf's Children]

Like a pentimento, New Orleans has long been a canvas repeatedly repainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Sketches] Reference

His poems are so dense and full of pentimento effects that he has more in common with T.S. Eliot than with Hughes or Larkin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Smart Enough to Understand Geoffrey Hill? « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference

It's an effect caused by the oil itself, and the effect is responsible for the unintended pentimento you occasionally come across in an old master's work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daybreak Blues] Reference

So I think journalism at its best can kind of do pentimento and go underneath the portrait they ` re giving and try -- and give Americans what is really happening, what is underneath what they ` re saying that is the true portrait.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk] Reference

But what surprised me was not the restoration of the old but the advent of the new: the influx of innovators and entrepreneurs and creative young people who were painting, like a pentimento, fresh brushstrokes onto the canvas of New Orleans.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Sketches] Reference

Has your neighbor canceled her subscription to the local paper and started swiping yours from the lawn at 5 a.m., rapidly doing and frenetically erasing the acrostic and then returning the paper to the lawn at 5: 35 but leaving a telltale pentimento of mostly incorrect answers?.    From Wordnik.com.  [We'll Tell You When It Hurts] Reference

What we actually saw may over time become pentimento.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference

But the memories are 43 years removed now; they only seem to emerge, like pentimento in an oil painting, when some other such tragedy invites comparison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blog updates] Reference

Because of this continual exploration of insertion and omission, the surfaces of his work become heavily layered which simultaneously conceals and reveals previously completed compositions, akin to a pentimento effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bend Blogs] Reference