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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
Luigi Monti	Grillet & C.	FOTO02587	1861
Pinewood of Ravenna	Ricci, Luigi	FOTO02408	1872
Giuseppe Verdi and the first singers of Messa da Requiem:Teresa Stolz, Maria Waldmann, Ormondo Maini e Giuseppe Capponi	Diotallevi, Augusto	FOTO02821	1874
Faustina Biagioli, mother of Davide Lazzaretti	Laudamia & Baldi	FOTO00734	1880
Catania: Monument to Bellini	Grassi, P.	FOTO02157	1890
Mario Rapisardi house	Alessandrini, Ninì	FOTO03219	1890
Maestro Josè Campabadal y Calvet	Paynter Bros	FOTO00187	1890
Maestro Giuseppe Capitani's bust	Rossetti, Simone	FOTO03088	1892
Giuseppe Verdi outside the Giulio Ricordi's house in Via Borgonuovo, Milan.	Ferrario, Achille	FOTO01146	1892
Saverio Mercadante, portrait, in Altamura	D'Alesio, Antonio	FOTO02770	1895