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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
Hans Guido von Bülow	Meisenbach Riffarth	FOTO00493	1860
Pietro Mongini	Maza, Emilio	FOTO00676	1860
Luigi Canepa portrait, 18 years old, in military uniform	Zonini, A.	FOTO03203	1868
Raphael Colombel and his wife in stage costume	Photo Comp.ie Franco Belge	FOTO03216	1880
Luigi Manzotti	Ganzini, Giovan Battista	FOTO00671	1880
Faustina Biagioli, mother of Davide Lazzaretti	Laudamia & Baldi	FOTO00734	1880
Xavier Van Elewyck	Morren, Prosper	FOTO02970	1884
Vittorina Bartolucci	Studio Ariostea	FOTO02303	1885
Lina Peri	Spadoni, G.	FOTO01494	1890
Enrique Soro	Spencer y Cia	FOTO02176	1890