Mallorcan school; 18th century. "Flower vases and landscapes". Oil on canvas. They show cracks and craquelure. Measurements: 80 x 100 cm (x2). In this pair of canvases we see a still life open to landscape on one side, following a composition typical of the full baroque, although the arrangement of the flowers, regular and geometric, remains faithful to the most static and rigorous models of the first half of the 17th century. However, not only the openness to the landscape but also the presence of architectural elements located in the background of each of the compositions indicate that we are dealing with works of an advanced date. The Mallorcan school of still lifes shows a strong influence of the Valencian school, although it had its own personality and must have enjoyed a certain importance, given the number of works that have survived to the present day. It developed mainly from the end of the 17th century and during the 18th century, with the appearance of the figure of Guillermo Mesquida (1625-1747), who raised the level of Mallorcan painting. He was the most famous painter of the Balearic Baroque and the absolute dominator of the artistic panorama between the end of the 17th century and the first half of the 18th century. He was an excellent painter of still lifes, although we do not have a single one of them today that we can attribute to him with absolute certainty. His biographers indicate that he was a pupil in Rome of the Italian Carlos Marata, a painter who had a great influence on the development of still life painting, as he collaborated with numerous specialists in this genre. Mesquida depicted fruit, animals and flowers in his works, and founded a workshop in Mallorca where numerous works were produced, some of which are still preserved today. His style would have been characterised by a great chromatic richness and a clear ostentatiousness and abundance of fruit and floral elements, traits that would be inherited by his followers of the Mallorcan school, as can be seen in this canvas. Thanks to Mesquida's influence, the Mallorcan still-life painters picked up Italian elements, especially Neapolitan and Roman, always combined with the influence of the Valencian school. Dimensions 80 x 100 cm (x2).