Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli: A Florentine Master of Portraiture and Religious Devotion Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli (c. 1430 – Firenze, 1514) stands as a pivotal figure in the flourishing artistic landscape of Renaissance Siena and Florence, renowned primarily for his exquisitely rendered portraits and devotional paintings that captured the spirit of humanist ideals alongside profound religious conviction. Born in Florence around 1430, Spinelli’s formative years coincided with the burgeoning intellectual fervor of the era—a period marked by rediscovery of classical antiquity and a renewed int…