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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
Baldini Resi, harpist	Donnini, R.	FOTO01865	1890
Catania: Monument to Bellini	Grassi, P.	FOTO02157	1890
Felix Weingartner	Bieber, Emilie	FOTO02162	1890
Fernando De Lucia	Pesce, Francesco	FOTO02621	1890
Philipp Scharwenka	Kleitsch, Karl	FOTO03187	1890
Mario Rapisardi house	Alessandrini, Ninì	FOTO03219	1890
Adelaide Ristori in old age	Varischi & Artico	FOTO03285	1890
Luisa Gilboni in stage costume	Amador	FOTO00549	1890
Lucia Bottassi Li Greci	Fumagalli, E.V.	FOTO00620	1890
Giuseppe Branzoli	De Simoni F.lli	FOTO00764	1890