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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
Alberto Bachmann	Messy	FOTO03003	1900
Enrico Caruso with Francesco Paolo Tosti and Antonio Scotti during a vacation in London	Angeli, A.	FOTO00221	1900
Lelio Casini	Oraw-Raff	FOTO00236	1900
Leandro Criscuolo	Sisto, S.	FOTO00316	1900
Hariclea Darclée in the role of Tosca, Act 1	Guigoni & Bossi	FOTO00322	1900
Giacomo Puccini and the guests at the lunch offered in the Restaurant Righi of Genoa after the last staging of Tosca in his	Testa, Achille	FOTO01992	20/05/1900
Ottorino Respighi in St Petersburg	Lorens	FOTO01391	1901
Ramón Blanchart in the role of Amleto	Arriaga	FOTO00099	1902
Fausta Labia	Scattola, Francesco	FOTO00570	1903
Marchese Ginori's Swans in Massaciuccoli lake	Ornano, A.	FOTO00819	1903