FRANCESCO SOLIMENA (Italy, 1657 - 1747) AND ANDREA DEL BELVEDERE (Naples, 1652 - 1732)."Two geniuses among garlands and bouquets of flowers".Oil on canvas. Re-coloured.It presents emblem of Royal collection, placed in the lower right corner.Measurements: 96,5 x 68,5 cm.Aesthetically in terms of theme and composition, the work seems to be a pair of the painting from the end of the 17th century, which belongs to the collection of the Prado Museum, entitled "Two genies between garlands and bouquets of flowers", an idea that is reinforced by the presence of the emblem or seal corresponding to the royal collection, which is located in the lower right-hand corner. The work is the product of a collaboration between two Italian painters, Francesco Solimena and Andrea del Belvedere. In this particular case, due to the aesthetics and technical finish, the figures of the angels or genii would be the work of Solimena, while the flowers would correspond to Belvedere. This type of collaboration between artists has been common since the Middle Ages, both at the level of the master apprentice, with several painters from the same workshop collaborating on a single painting, and at the professional level, combining the specialities of recognised artists, as in this particular case, for example. The monumentality of the figures in the work, the voluptuousness of the bodies, together with the profusion of flowers presented in their greatest splendour, indicate that this is a work intended for personal delight and taste, probably for the decoration of a private room.An Italian painter of the late Baroque period, Francesco Solimena trained with his father, who was also a painter, and developed his career in Naples, where he settled in 1674. There he furthered his training with De Maria, in whose studio he became acquainted with the more advanced Baroque works of Cortona, Lanfranco, Preti and Giordano. His early works reveal a clear affinity with the Roman Baroque as well as with the more recent Neapolitan pictorial tradition. Later, seeking to develop an alternative to Giordano's fanciful language, Solimena approached the darker art of Mattia Preti, insisting on greater plasticity. Thus the shading that characterises his figures began to appear in his work. He soon became the visible head of the Neapolitan school and was later influenced by the classicism of Maratta, which led him to seek a greater intensity in his drawing with academic accents. Works by Solimena are now in the Museo del Prado, the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg, the J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles, the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan in New York, the National Gallery in London and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among other public and private collections throughout the world.