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Enrico Barberi attended the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna|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: [[{{ill|Silverio Montaguti]]|it}}, [[{{ill|Giuseppe Romagnoli]]|it}}, [[Farpi Vignoli]], [[{{ill|Antonio Alberghini]]|it}}}, [[{{ill|Cleto Tomba]]|it}} and [[Giuseppe Virgili]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Giuseppe Virgili - Prima ipotesi di catalogo completo|author=Arianna Fornasari|location=Ferrara|agencyvia=Liberty house|pages=VII e 31|year=2014}}</ref>

He was among the participants of the artistic guild of the [[Aemilia Ars]], collaborating and making friends with [[Achille Casanova]], [[{{ill|Alfonso Rubbiani]]|it}}, [[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 di Bologna|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 Borghi-Mamo|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 [[Fountain of Neptune, Bologna|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.<ref>''Coscienza urbana e urbanistica tra due millenni'', vol. 1., Fatti bolognesi dal 1796 alla prima guerra mondiale, Bologna, San Giorgio in Poggiale, 11 dicembre 1993-13 febbraio 1994, a cura di Franca Varignana, Bologna, Grafis, 1993, p. 211</ref>

* Several funerary monuments in the cemetery of Cesena.<ref name="Panzetta2">{{quote|Panzetta}}.</ref>

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