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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
L'Idiota, by Luciano Chailly, a scene	Agenzia Dufoto	FOTO02616	1970
Meg Eginton, Rob Remley, Joseph Lennon, Alan Good in the ballet Roadrunners, 1979	Greenfield, Lois	FOTO03249	1979
Ricordi offices in Via Salomone: funeral masks of Verdi and Puccini	Dabbrescia	FOTO02781	1980
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
Giuseppe Silvestri		FOTO02942