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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
Alessandro Bartoli	Zanutto, Mino	FOTO02302	1890
Josef Bayer	Szekely	FOTO02312	1890
Cardinale Domenico Svampa	Navarini	FOTO03049	1890
Orazio Costantino	Vaccaro Casano, C.	FOTO03139	1890
Ruggero Galli	Zaccaria, Giuseppe	FOTO00486	1890
Luisa Gilboni in the role of Brunilde	Compañy, Manuel	FOTO00551	1890
Ines Orsini	Vidau, Andrea	FOTO00623	1890
Ida Rappini	Verza y Túrolo	FOTO00892	1890
Giulio Scalinger	Lembo, Ferdinando	FOTO00999	1890
John Philip Sousa	Baker Art Gallery	FOTO02671	1890