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Photographs

Collection

The Photographic Collection of the Archivio Storico Ricordi originated during the second half of the 1800s and covers the whole of the 1900s, counting thousands of items thanks mainly to the interest shown by Giulio Ricordi for this new artform. Photography had become an increasingly indispensable medium within an editor’s production system, as evidenced by Casa Ricordi’s early periodicals such as Musica e Musicisti and Ars et Labor. This section includes a list of the nearly 900 photographic studios that collaborated with Ricordi, including many of the national and international big names in photography.

The luthier Luigi Paganini with M°Archimede Montanelli and the little Balilla, photograph by Battista Canè, Forlì, early 1900s

On focus

Giuseppe Verdi davanti alla casa di Giulio Ricordi

Achille Ferrario

Giacomo Puccini

Attilio Badodi

Sarah Bernhardt nel ruolo di Tosca

Félix Nadar

Ottorino Respighi

Ghitta Carell

Ella Fitzgerald

Ugo Mulas

Daria Farini

London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company Ltd.

Description	Author	ID	Date
Carmen Bonaplata	Strazza, Antonio	FOTO00141	1890
Hall Caine	Walery	FOTO00183	1890
Maestro Josè Campabadal y Calvet	Paynter Bros	FOTO00187	1890
Maestro Giuseppe Capitani's bust	Rossetti, Simone	FOTO03088	1892
Annunziata Stinco Panizza in stage costume	Molena, Vittorio	FOTO02183	1894
John Burns	Thomson	FOTO00559	1895
Florence Monteith	Ellis, Alfred	FOTO00668	1895
Count of San Martino	Pirou, Eugène	FOTO00986	1895
Pietro Mascagni	Guigoni & Bossi	FOTO00017	1895
Giannina Galli	Muggia, Achille	FOTO00484	1896