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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
Lina Peri De Stefani	Forlivesi, V.	FOTO02839	1896
Fernando De Lucia	Marvuglia, Francesco	FOTO02619	1897
Bessie Macdonald	Vandyck, Herman	FOTO03143	1897
Cesare Stiattesi	Stoppani, S.	FOTO03126	1899
Isabella Paoli	Studio Bertieri	FOTO01450	23/07/1899
Vincenzo Valente	Ricciardi	FOTO02189	1900
Matilde Bruschini	Alvino, Renato	FOTO02198	1900
Margherita Bettini	Calvet Hermanos	FOTO00126	1901
Emma Marselli	Cattani, Achille	FOTO00713	1902
Giacomo Puccini portrait, in hunting suit	Pierotti, I.	FOTO01109	1902