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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
Door of the birthplace of Don Lorenzo Perosi in Tortona	Ginocchio	FOTO03280	1932
I Vespri Siciliani, Act 3, Scene 2, Palermo, Teatro Massimo, 1937	Grassi, G.	FOTO01609	1937
The room Riccardo Zandonai in the Civic Library of Rovereto, 1939	Decarli	FOTO01313	1939
Roncole di Busseto: view	Ancillotti, Carlo	FOTO01354	1940
Bruno Bettinelli , portrait by Mario Bettinelli 1943	Mari, Gianni	FOTO01042	1943
Robert Kothe	Neuhaus	FOTO03052
Componimenti diversi di Carlo Goldoni, engraving	Filippi, Tomaso	FOTO03328
Music school 'P. Mascagni' in Arcevia	Baffoni, Silvio	FOTO02666
Mademoiselle Nikita	Chalot	FOTO02756
Pasquale Mario Costa, portrait by Edmundo Pizzella	Fiorillo, E.	FOTO02845