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History: Jean Malouel in Dutch Jan Maelwael (Gueldre, 1397 -1415), Dutch painter and miniaturist. He was court painter to Queen Isabella of Bavaria and the Duke of Burgundy and an important artist of the international Gothic. Jean Malouel's original painting is kept in the Louvre in Paris. Jean Malouel paints a Grande Pietà Ronde - Pitié de Notre Seigneur (1400-1415), where pain becomes intimate, more composed, silent, combined with a great linear refinement. The work was commissioned by Philip the Ardito, brother of King Charles V. This beautiful work, particularly dense with devotion, was created by Silvia Salvadori on commission. Its realization involved many months of work and study. In particular, the original colors have been restored, largely greatly altered by aggressive cleaning carried out over the centuries both on the paint film and in the gilding. In some parts of the original painting the decoration had disappeared and therefore a careful and complete reconstruction was necessary. Silvia Salvadori has added a thin gilded and finely engraved band to replace a hypothetical frame once present in the original work. The best pigments used and described by the most important Tuscan master painters, first of all Cennino Cennini, were used for this work. Everything has been taken care of in every little detail, from the hair, to the wings of the angels, to the gaudy draperies, up to the expressions of the faces very similar, if not identical to the original work.