Pentimento keeps every version of your visual work, layer by layer, and lets you look through the paint to any earlier one.
Nothing you paint over is lost
Four sittings, one file
A painter built a portrait in passes: drawing, values, colour, glaze. Pentimento stores your files the same way. Keep scrolling and the varnish comes off, one save at a time.
Every save, kept and signed.
A painting took months and hid its drafts under the varnish. A file changes forty times before lunch and keeps none of them. Pentimento keeps them anyway.
- v14Signed
v033 studies
v01Underdrawing
v072 notes
v11Restored- v02Verdaccio
v094 hands- v22Branch
- v00First mark
Every save has a hand
Select a save to open it.
Underdrawing
by LuciaHand drawn lower
by LuciaVerdaccio
by LuciaFace decided
by LuciaFirst colour
by TomasBackground guess
by TomasGlaze, pass one
by LuciaMarked final
by ClientStudy: no cap
by TomasNotes sealed
by LuciaSigned and sent
by Lucia
A photographed panel, cleaned one square at a time. Each pass is its own save, so any single square can be put back.
- Photographed
Panel scan, 8,400 pxKept - Varnish lifted
Left half, two passesKept - Region restored
Sleeve back to v6Restored
Most fixes start small.
Counted on the patron portrait, from its first charcoal line to the signed export.
- 22
- versions kept of one painting, none overwritten
- 0
- files named final_final_v3
- 1.6s
- to bring back any save, layer or region
- 4
- hands recorded in its provenance
Four tools, four readings
Each one reads your files a different way, and each is named after the people who looked after paintings long before software did.
Bring us a sketch
The private beta opens to studios in spring 2027. Leave an address and we will write once, when there is a seat for you.