Louis Temporale

Career Louis Temporale was born in Maiano (now Fiesole), Fruili province, Italy. He began his artistic studies at the age of 14 at the State School of Design in his hometown. He later studied sculpture with Giuseppe Del Fabro in the town of Saint Daniele. settling in Toronto. He then studied sculpture with Elizabeth Wyn Wood at the Central Technical School and Emanuel Hahn at the Ontario College of Art. and died there.

Temporale worked largely in granite, limestone, and marble, and his carvings ranged from three-dimensional sculpture, to two-dimensional sculptural reliefs. He was best known for the high quality of his stone relief carving on numerous post offices, banks, bridges, educational institutions and hospitals in Hamilton and Toronto. In 1938–1939, he was commissioned to create a 13-panel limestone bas relief carvings depicting Communications & Transportation on the side of the new Toronto Postal Delivery Building (which is now the Scotiabank Arena). He also created other carvings utilized in the facade of the building. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy, the Ontario Society of Artists the Sculptors Society of Canada, His life and business partner was his wife Margaret; his partner was his son, Louis Jr. Temporale, who is preserving his father's legacy.