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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
Olga Olghina	Denier	FOTO02804
Edvard Grieg	Deutmann e Zonen	FOTO02808
Herbert Janssen in the role of Escamillo	Eberth	FOTO02827
Amelie Talexis	Fernbach, Alfres	FOTO02842
Romano Nannetti	Fillon, A.	FOTO02844
Pasquale Mario Costa, portrait by Edmundo Pizzella	Fiorillo, E.	FOTO02845
Maestro Ferdinando Seveso (at the center seated) with Orchestra Italiana in Stockholm	Fonason, A.	FOTO02847
V.Durdilly	Fortier, L.	FOTO02849
Antonella Parsi Pettinella	Franzen	FOTO02864
Francesco Petroni	Garrigues	FOTO02866