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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
Man portrait in stage costume	Negretti & Zambra	FOTO02405	1860
Enrico Cohen	Mayer, Otto	FOTO02996	1863
Henriette Leavington	Antonopoulo, J.	FOTO02638	1865
Giuseppe Fancelli in stage costume, Il Profeta by Meyerbeer	Fotografia del Parlamento Italiano	FOTO02862	1865
Agnes Reus Balley [?] in stage costume	De Vernay	FOTO02403	1866
Man portrait	Martinez, Alonso	FOTO02404	13/05/1866
Angelo Mariani	Sorgato, Angelo	FOTO01552	1867
Antonio Arnao	Clero	FOTO02263	1870
Ercole Folegatti	Lindehmer	FOTO02949	1870
Pinewood of Ravenna	Ricci, Luigi	FOTO02408	1872