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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
Henry van Gael	Klary	FOTO02940
Anton Rubinstein	Levinthal, Hermann	FOTO02948
Benedetto Morasca	Lo Forte & C., E.	FOTO02961
Adelina Patti	Luckhardt, Fritz	FOTO02968
Alessandro Ruta	Lungo, Paolo	FOTO02969
Amedeo Ongania	Madse	FOTO02972
Emilia Marin	Maksay, George	FOTO02973
Georges Thill in the role of Romeo	Mandel, J.	FOTO02975
Cesare Nuti	Mantovani, Alfredo	FOTO02984
Florencio Constantino	Marcoartu, M.	FOTO02986