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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
Catania: Monument to Bellini	Grassi, P.	FOTO02157	1890
Teatro Bellini, Catania: facade	Biondi	FOTO03287	1890
Teatro Bellini, Catania: interior	Biondi	FOTO03288	1890
Maestro Giuseppe Capitani's bust	Rossetti, Simone	FOTO03088	1892
Monument to Giovan Battista Bottero by O. Tabacchi, Turin	Cianotto & Filippi	FOTO00158	1899
Politeama Adriano, interior	Luigioni, Luigi	FOTO01166	1900
New Opera Theatre in Corfù	Farrugia, Mario	FOTO00033	1902
Monument offered by City of Turin to Vittorio Alfieri	Penna, F.	FOTO02223	1903
Bust of Hector Berlioz by Urban Basset in Monte Carlo	A.T.	FOTO02593	1903
Bust of Eleonora Duse, sculpture by Diego Sarti	Castelli, G.	FOTO02753	1905