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(1) Enrico Giovanni Haffner
(b Bologna, bapt 24 Aug 1640; d Bologna, 8 Aug 1702). He was trained in the style of Agostino Stanzani Mitelli and followers. After a period of service in the court of Modena in the early 1660s, he joined forces with the painter Domenico Maria Canuti, with whom he executed his finest work, the frescoes in the nave of SS Domenico e Sisto (1674–5), Rome, and the decorations of the vault of the first antechamber on the first floor of the Palazzo Altieri (1675–6), Rome. The quadratura of SS Domenico e Sisto constitutes a striking modification of traditional Bolognese schemata, with the conventionally solid surround reduced to an undulant bordure that lends the ensemble a rhythmic quality, liberating rather than constricting the picture field and anticipating the style of the following century. In 1675 Haffner was admitted to the Accademia di S Luca. He moved back to Bologna and there worked with Gian Antonio Burrini and Marcantonio Franceschini, with whom he decorated the ceiling of the Palazzo Ranuzzi (now Pal. Giustizia) with Fortuna and the Seasons (1680). His last major work in Bologna was in collaboration with Canuti: frescoes (1677–8) in the library of S Michele in Bosco. In Savona he collaborated with Bartolomeo Guidobono on a vault fresco, Chariot of the Sun (c. 1680), in the Palazzo Gavotti. Some considerable time later he is known to have gone to Modena, to decorate the main reception hall of the Palazzo Ducale with Franceschini and Luigi Quaini (1643–1717). At an unknown date he moved to join his younger brother, (2) Antonio, in Genoa. They worked together with several noted Genoese painters, decorating palazzi, among them the celebrated Palazzo Rosso.
Part of the Haffner family
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