Luigi Diamante

Diamante studied at the College of Arts of Venice while working as designer in an architectural firm. In that period he did a series of studies of buildings and monuments in Udine, some of them dated 1922.

His first designs and oil paintings date back to the second half of the 1920s. In 1934 he became famous for participating in various "Mostre Sindicali d'Arte," syndicated exhibitions of arts, acting on some executive committees. In 1939 he worked on the decoration of the apse of the church of Nogaredo di Prato. In 1944 he worked with the architect Toso on the architectural survey of the main monumental buildings of Udine to evaluate damage resulting from the anticipated bombardments. In 1946 he worked on the decoration of the facades of the Manzano and Soleschiano churches.[1]

From 1947 until his death he taught drawing at the A. Manzoni Middle School in the city. During the '50s and '60s he continued to paint and travelled the country and in Germany and Austria in 1962 in the footsteps of the painter Tiepolo and France in 1964 in those of the Impressionists. From these travels he left a large amount of documentation in the form of sketches and drawings. He also continued to exhibit his works.[2]

Since his death he has left more than 400 oil paintings and several hundreds of works in various techniques (including watercolor paintings, tempera, pastel, and drawings).

• III Mostra Sindacale d'Arte catalogue, 1936
• IV Mostra Sindacale d'Arte catalogue, 1938
• Archivio storico d'arte contemporanea Biennale di Venezia, 1952
• La revue moderne des arts et de la vie, Paris, 1968
• Dino Menichini, Giancarlo Pauletto, Luciano Padovese, Diamante, Pordenone, Centro di iniziative culturali, Edizioni d'Arte, 1974
• Licio Damiani. Arte del Novecento in Friuli, Del Bianco editore, 1982
• Acquisizioni e restauri, Musei Civici di Pordenone, 1983
• Luigina Bortolatto. La realtà dell'immaginario: opere d'arte del XX secolo nelle Raccolte Pubbliche delle Regioni Friuli V.G., Trentino A.A., Veneto, Treviso, Soc. Industriale Tipografica, 1987
• Licio Damiani. La Provincia e l'arte – 100 opere di pittura e scultura del '900 di proprietà dell'Amministrazione Provinciale di Udine, Centro iniziative per l'arte e la cultura, 1988
• Giancarlo Pauletto. Il Veneto orientale nei disegni di Luigi Diamante, Latisana (UD), Edizioni rivista la Bassa, 1990
• Giancarlo Pauletto. I colori della terra – Arte e vita contadina nella Destra Tagliamento, 1900–1960, Provincia di Pordenone e Regione Friuli V.G., 1997
• Licio Damiani. Friuli-Venezia Giulia: L'arte del novecento, Biblioteca dell'immagine, Pordenone, 2001
• Giancarlo Pauletto. I volti dell'arte: autoritratti e ritratti d'artista nel Friuli occidentale, 1882–1984, Catalogue, Pordenone, Museo Civico d'Arte e Comune di Pordenone Editore, 2005

• (in Italian) Luigi Diamante