Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, c.1490–1510
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Italian · repentance · from pentirsi, to repent
In painting: the trace of an earlier composition that shows through the surface over time, or under X-ray. The figure the artist painted over. The composition they abandoned. The correction that reveals the doubt behind the masterpiece.
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Bosch
The Garden of Earthly Delights
c.1490–1510
Leonardo da Vinci
Virgin of the Rocks
c.1483–1508
Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
c.1665
Picasso
La Vie
1903
Velázquez
Las Meninas
1656
Rembrandt
The Night Watch
1642
Van Gogh
Patch of Grass
1887
Holbein
Henry VIII
c.1537
Manet
Olympia
1863
Van Eyck
The Arnolfini Portrait
1434
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