? – 1660

Italian painter and draughtsman. He painted altarpieces and history paintings, in a highly original style that united the ambiguous and refined sensuality of late Mannerism with the naturalistic light and more balanced compositions of 17th-century painters. His family settled in Chieti, and Spinelli was active in the Abruzzi and in Naples; his biography was written by Bernardo de Dominici, who records that he was a pupil of Massimo Stanzione, that he gave up painting for alchemy, and died in 1647 during an alchemical experiment.Show more

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