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Enrico Haffner (August 1640 – 1702) was an Italian painter of quadratura during the

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

period, active mainly in Bologna.

Biography

Enrico was born to a Swiss father, who was a mercenary Swiss guard for the Papacy, stationed in Bologna; Enrico himself rose to become a lieutenant in the force. His younger brother

Antonio Maria Haffner Antonio Maria Haffner (1654–1732) was an Italian painter of quadratura and priest during the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Biography Enrico was born to a Swiss father, who was a mercenary Swiss guard for the Papacy, stationed in Bo ...

(born 1654) also became a painter. While it is sometimes said the Haffner brothers trained with Domenico Maria Canuti, they practiced of quadratura, and seem to have learned more from

Baldassare Bianchi Baldassare Bianchi (1612 in Bologna – 1679) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography He was first a pupil of Giovanni Paderna, but after Paderna's death, he trained with Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent quadratura painte ...

and

Giovanni Giacomo Monti Giovanni Giacomo Monti (born 1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He trained with Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Monti became a colleague of Baldassare Bianchi, Mitelli's son-in-law. This part ...

, as well as the influence of

Agostino Mitelli Agostino Mitelli (16 March 1609 – 2 August 1660) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of ''quadratura'' or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks. He was born in Battedizzo, near Bologna ...

. Enrico did travel with Canuti to Rome and painted in the church of

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. Returning to Bologna, under the patronage of the Olivetan prior Taddeo Pepoli, Haffner also worked alongside Canuti, at the convent of San Michele in Bosco, including quadratura above the main altar of the church. Enrico also worked with Marcantonio Franceschini in the church of

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and in the Palazzo Marescotti. In November 1661, he worked for the duke of

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for one year, where he was paid a stipend of 130 lire per month. Again in 1696, he worked with Franceschini and Luigi Quaini in completing frescoes for the main hall of the Ducal Palace of Modena. Haffner worked with

Giovanni Antonio Burrini Giovanni Antonio Burrini (25 April 1656 – 5 January 1727) was a Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style. After an apprenticeship with Domenico Maria Canuti, he went to work under Lorenzo Pasinelli with fellow student, Giovanni ...

in Santi Giovanni Battista dei Celestini. Enrico worked with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole in the Palazzo Bianconcini. Enrico also painted in

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in the church of Spirito Santo, in the palazzo Gavoti, and in the Balbi Chapel.

References

* *Ebria Feinblatt. ''A Letter by Enrico Haffner'', The Burlington Magazine (1970) Vol 112(80): pages 229–233. 1640 births 1702 deaths 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 18th-century Italian painters Painters from Bologna Italian Baroque painters Quadratura painters 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub