Francesco Potenzano

Print by Francesco Potenzano, 1583

Francesco Potenzano was an Italian painter, poet, and promoter, called The Great. He was a native of Palermo. He travelled to Rome, Naples, Malta, and through a large part of Spain. He died in 1599.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 312.