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[Arturo Toscanini, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / V. Laviosa, Roma, New York. – Antique Photo Print

[Arturo Toscanini, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / V. Laviosa, Roma, New York., c1926. — historic photograph
[Arturo Toscanini, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / V. Laviosa, Roma, New York., c1926.. Historic photograph from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of [Arturo Toscanini, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / V. Laviosa, Roma, New York.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Arturo Toscanini, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] / V. Laviosa, Roma, New York.

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Arturo Toscanini is shown here in a head-and-shoulders pose turned to the left, a format that keeps attention on his face and the stern concentration for which he was known. The print carries the imprint of V. Laviosa, a studio whose name links Rome and New York, a reminder of how often Italian musicians and their portraitists moved between the two cities in the 1920s. Toscanini, one of the most celebrated conductors of his era, was then at the height of an international career that would later bring him to the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. Portraits like this one were widely circulated to promote concerts and recordings.

Created / publishedc1926.
Medium1 photographic. print.
GenrePortrait photographs 1920-1930.Photographic. prints 1920-1930.
NotesJ28091 U.S. Copyright Office.
SubjectsToscanini, Arturo,--1867-1957.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,255 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-180890

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