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(b Bologna, bapt Aug 24, 1640; d Bologna, Aug 8, 1702). Italian painter. 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 ...