Which Renaissance master smashed his unfinished Bandini Pietà in
Chapter 1

Science's biggest oops moments

Chapter 2

Nature's perfect balance

Chapter 3

The brain's rewiring act

Chapter 4

Finding the code's bugs

Chapter 5

Painting over the past

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Ch 5 · Painting over the past
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007skaty The Art of Pentimento

The fading paint reveals the choices that we had to rewrite, As ghostly outlines find their way right back into the light.

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To make something lasting, we must be willing to undo our own work.

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The sculptor's marble patch

007skaty Frustrated by flawed marble, Michelangelo smashed his unfinished sculpture with a hammer before Tiberio Calcagni repaired and reattached

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The heavy cuts of a masterpiece

007skaty Holographic neon slashes mark heavy editorial cuts across a dark digital manuscript

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Painting over the past
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007skaty Swipe new paint over old canvases to discover how we constantly correct our past.

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Fun Fact

Gatsby's name: F. Scott Fitzgerald wanted to name his famous novel 'Under the Red, White, and Blue' before his editor convinced him to change it.

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Glossary
palimpsest (noun)
A manuscript or surface on which original writing or artwork has been effaced to make room for later work. Giotto's fourteenth-century fresco Lamentation is a famous example, retouched by nineteenth-century restorer Giuseppe Molteni.

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Which artistic self-correction is most inspiring?

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Who was the assistant who repaired and reassembled Michelangelo's damaged Bandini Pietà sculpture?

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Which Renaissance master smashed his unfinished Bandini Pietà in 1555, which was then repaired by his assistant?

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What Italian word, meaning repentance, refers to visible traces of earlier ideas that an artist painted over?

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In what year was X-ray technology first used on paintings, revealing hidden layers of artistic self-correction?

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Who was the legendary editor who gave F. Scott Fitzgerald the feedback that sparked the massive rewrite of Gatsby?

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What major climax of the 1977 Star Wars movie did Marcia Lucas completely rewrite and restructure in the editing room?

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Which author spent late 1924 heavily rewriting and self-correcting his draft of The Great Gatsby?

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Who edited the original 1977 Star Wars film, completely restructuring the final battle to save the movie from being a disaster?

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