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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
Giulietta Wermez	Boyer, Paul	FOTO00055	1890
Edoardo Mascheroni	Pesce, Ettore	FOTO00137	1890
Cleofonte Campanini	Ricci, Leone	FOTO00188	1890
Bice Corsini	Griggi, C.	FOTO00302	1890
Jacopo Calascione	Mazza	FOTO02999	1891
Giuseppe Verdi outside the Giulio Ricordi's house in Via Borgonuovo, Milan.	Ferrario, Achille	FOTO01146	1892
Hugo Becker	Gessford	FOTO02324	1895
Franz Liszt	Neue Photographische Gesellschaft	FOTO02555	1895
Michele Mariacher	Contarini, Giovanni	FOTO00722	1895
Leopoldo Mugnone	Varischi & Artico	FOTO00744	1895