Enrico Barberi

Place: Bologna

Born: 1850

Death: 1941

Biography:

Enrico Barberi was an Italian sculptor born in Bologna in 1850 and died in 1941. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and was a student of Salvino Salvini. He did an apprenticeship in Florence with the sculptor Giovanni Dupré. In 1876, he distinguished himself among the promises of the Academy of Fine Arts by exhibiting the great plaster Otriade. He taught at the Institute of Fine Arts and then, between 1895 and 1921, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, holding the chair of sculpture. Under his direction, generations of sculptors were formed, some of whom became figures of national and international importance. Among them: Silverio Montaguti, Giuseppe Romagnoli, Farpi Vignoli, Antonio Alberghini, Cleto Tomba and Giuseppe Virgili. He was a participant in the artistic guild of the Aemilia Ars, collaborating and making friends with Achille Casanova, Alfonso Rubbiani, Luigi Serra and Alfredo Tartarini. He was for a long time professor of sculpture at the Collegio Artistico Venturoli in Bologna, where he left many works and models of his sculptures. It is possible to admire an ample catalog of his marbles - covering all his long activity - in the Certosa of Bologna. Inside the Galleria degli Angeli there are two masterpieces, the Monument of Raffaele Bisteghi and the Ritratto di Enrico Panzacchi.