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Diamantini, Giuseppe
(b Fossombrone, 1621; d Fossombrone, 11 Nov 1705). Italian painter and printmaker. It seems likely that as a young man he visited Bologna and came into contact with such artists as Guercino and Simone Cantarini. He then went to Venice, probably c. 1650, and is documented there as a painter (Sansovino/Martinioni). His earliest surviving work is a design for the title page of an opera libretto (L’inganno riconosciuto by Camillo Contarini) dating from 1666. At about the same time he decorated the ceiling of the choir of S Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, with frescoes on the theme of God the Father; here he combined Bolognese classicism with a Venetian sense of colour derived from Pietro Liberi. Liberi and Federigo Cervelli (1625–before 1700) were the two main stylistic influences on his most important works, which date from the 1670s and 1680s: an altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi (Venice, S Moïse) and paintings depicting Mercury and Argus, Juno, Jupiter and Io and Venus, made for the hall of the Palazzo Badoer, Venice (in situ). These three canvases are all that has been identified of Diamantini’s apparently sizeable production of paintings of profane subjects for private patrons, unless the Acis and Galatea in the Palazzo Koch in Rome is indeed by him, as has been suggested. He also produced a series of about 60 prints, mainly on mythological subjects, some of which bear inscriptions suggesting that they were made on commission. These are variously reminiscent of the refined eclecticism of Liberi, the brilliant freedom of Sebastiano Mazzoni and the delicate Venetian classicism of Giulio Carpioni. In 1698 Diamantini returned to Fossombrone, where he remained for his last years.
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