Emporium: rivista mensile illustrata d'arte, letteratura, scienze e varietà, Bergamo, 1895-1964
Emporium came out from 1895 to 1964 on a monthly basis but was collected in half-yearly volumes. Founded by Paolo Gaffuri and Arcangelo Ghisleri was printed in Bergamo by the renowned Istituto Italiano di Arti Grafiche.
In the early years, the covers of Emporium were entrusted to the in-house designers at the Istituto in Begamo and were not always signed. In the 1920s, designer covers, signed by their authors, who were then acknowledged in the magazine credits, became more frequent and they were always different until the early thirties. Often they reflected the style dominant at the time. Since 1932 the covers became graphic-pictorial and since 1937 they have been photographs of works of art and since 1942 they were no longer illustrated but only color-coded for each year.
The most important Italian graphic designers and illustrators of the time were involved in the creation of the covers: Giovanni Guerrini, Publio Morbiducci, Leonella Nasi, Giulio Cisari, Erberto Carboni, Diego Santambrogio, Giulio Rosso and especially Ugo Nebbia (his covers with a war subject) and Fortunato Depero.
Firenze, Biblioteca di Scienze Tecnologiche - Sezione Architettura, Fondo Papini