Enrico Barberi

Enrico Barberi (Bologna, 22 July 1850 – Bologna, 1941) was an Italian sculptor.

Biography
Enrico Barberi attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and was a student of Salvino Salvini. Between 1871 and 1873 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 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 were formed generations of sculptors, some of whom will be figures of national and international importance. Among the many: Silverio Montaguti, Giuseppe Romagnoli, Farpi Vignoli, Antonio Alberghini}, Cleto Tomba and Giuseppe Virgili. He was among the participants of the artistic guild of the Aemilia Ars, collaborating and making friends with Achille Casanova, Alfonso Rubbiani, Luigi Serra, Alfredo Tartarini. The poet and art critic Alfonso Panzacchi was a sincere admirer of his and Barberi made at least two portraits of him. 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 (1891) and the one dedicated to the opera singers Adelaide and Erminia Borghi-Mamo (1894). In the Church of San Girolamo there is the refined monument to Cardinal Vincenzo Moretti (1882). Among the rare public works is the bronze Monument to Marcello Malpighi (1897), placed in the square of Crevalcore. In 1897 he was commissioned by the mayor to draw up a report on the "state of health" of the Neptune Fountain of Bologna in Piazza Maggiore. The sculptor advised to keep the statue in a museum and replace it with a copy. Until 1919 Barberi remained an official consultant for Neptune.

Main works at the Monumental Cemetery of Certosa di Bologna

 * Hall of the Pantheon of the illustrious men: statues of the friend-painter Luigi Serra, of Francesco Rocchi and Paolo Venturini
 * Borghi Mamo Monument, Gallery of the Angels
 * Monument of Raffaele Bisteghi
 * Monument of Cardinal Vincenzo Moretti
 * Monument of Rivani Family
 * Monument of Camillo Zambeccari Zanchini
 * Monument to Emilio Putti, Cloister V
 * Rivani Monument, Cloister III
 * Trombetti Monument, Galleria degli Angeli
 * Cavazza Monument, Gallery of the Angels
 * Garelli Monument, Gallery of Angels
 * Vespignanni Cell, Gallery of Angels
 * Cella Facchini, Gallery of the Angels
 * Pezzoli Monument, Cloister VII
 * Berlinzani Monument, Cloister VII
 * Veratti Monument, Cloister VII
 * Lorenzini Monument, Cloister VII
 * Agostini Monument, Cloister VII
 * Guidicini Monument, Cloister VII
 * Pizzoli Monument, Cloister VII
 * Pezzoli Monument, Cloister VII
 * Faccioli Brugnoli Monument, Cloister IX
 * Monument to Goffredo Franceschi, Corsia del Colombario

Other works

 * Promoteo, kept at the Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna
 * San Francesco, Capuchin church, Imola
 * Bust of Enrico Panzacchi, 1812, for the gardens in Bologna
 * Several funerary monuments in the cemetery of Cesena.

Donations
In 1987 his nephew Mario donated to the Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Bologna documents and drawings by Luigi Serra, probably received by Barberi directly from the painter.