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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
Ettore Borucchia in the role of Mefistofele	Società Fotografica Roma	FOTO00157	1883
Luisa Gilboni in stage costume	Amador	FOTO00549	1890
Mario Russel in the role of Othello	Anadone, Carlo	FOTO00977	1890
Elsa Raccanelli in stage costume	Esplugas, Antonio	FOTO01860	1900
Jeanne Foreau in stage costume	Bioletto, J.	FOTO00465	1900
Eugenia Bronska Makaroff in the role of Giulietta	Salviati, Paolo	FOTO00899	1900
Mimì, Act 1	Daguerre	FOTO00070	1900
Giulia De Micheli in the role of Iris	Fiorentini, Luigi	FOTO02003	1901
Gemma Bellincioni in the role of Lorenza	Brogi, Giacomo	FOTO02426	1901
Geraldine Farrar in the role of Giulietta	Gerlach, Georg	FOTO00422	1901