Poster
Poster for “Tosca”
Adolfo Hohenstein · 1899
An Art Nouveau poster for the première of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome (1900).
- Object number
- HGO-BT-AP-0002
- Type
- Poster
- Collection
- Posters & printed matter
- Maker / artist
- Adolfo Hohenstein
- Date
- 1899
- Place of origin
- Milan, Italy (Ricordi)
- Materials & technique
- Colour lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- Poster format (digitised copy)
- Related production / event
- Tosca (Giacomo Puccini) — premièred at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, 1900
- Condition
- Good
- Display status
- In storage — Collection store — basement (illustrative)
Keywords: Poster · Art Nouveau · Puccini
The story of the object
Adolfo Hohenstein — house artist of the music publisher Ricordi — defined the look of the Italian opera poster in the Art Nouveau era, with supple lines and a warm palette.
Record & rights
- Provenance
- Public-domain digitisation on Wikimedia Commons.
- Acquisition
- Sample digital record for this demo
- Digitisation
- High-resolution photography
- Rights
- Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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