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The most frequently stolen, pilfered, and repurchased letters in history

The Victoria & Albert’s Forster Codices are now fully digitalized.

September 4 marks the 135th anniversary of the birth of the Kodak brand and the first film camera, as per patent no. 3888,850 filed in the State of New York by George Eastman.

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, deceased in Paris on November 13, 1973. Scala remembers this great twentieth century Haute Couture interpreter…

Scala is thrilled to represent and offer worldwide the images from the archives of Manuel Cohen. Manuel is a French professional photographer specializing in photographing works of art, monuments and cultural sites. In this exclusive interview…

Thirty years after the Georgofili massacre, ordered by the Cosa Nostra criminal organization, we
remember this somber anniversary that shook Florence and Italy with a story of rebirth.

5 unmissable collections, represented by Scala Archives, that you should visit to learn about the history of jewelry from its origins to the 20th century.

A journey among the portraits of the National Portrait Gallery in London that Scala is pleased to represent as official agent in Italy and in other countries.

2023 marks 100 years since the birth of soprano Maria Callas (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977). Scala Archives traces the most significant moments in the Divina’s life through vintage photos and videos.

On International Women’s Day, Scala Archives offers an in-depth look at a woman whose efforts helped change customs and prejudices within a profession that was considered the realm of men for much of the 20th century.

To summarize Pablo Picasso’s life as a man and an artist in a few paragraphs would be terribly reductive and useless. Hence in order to participate in the celebration of the great anniversary of 2023, that dedicated to the 50th anniversary…

The year 2022 marked the seventieth anniversary since the catwalk debut of Italian Fashion. Florence was the crossroads of creativity and experimentation, and to this day Pitti Immagine is a catalyst for new cosmopolitan lifestyles.

Travel related content is extremely diverse in nature and seemingly endless in quantity. Within the Scala archives you can, in fact, select among travel related instruments, old maps and cartography, landscape photos and travel documentation, postcards or vintage posters, art, objects and more.

With more than 25,000 works by more than 3,700 American artists, it is the world’s premier museum devoted to 20th and 21st century American art. Scala Archives is honored to represent the Whitney’s collection as its exclusive worldwide agent.

In occasion of the two hundredth anniversary from the death of the universally acclaimed sculptor Antonio Canova, Scala wishes to celebrate his life with a short journey through some of his most important works.

Autumn ushers in beautiful colors and a few special events… discover more image related to the autumn!

Queen Elizabeth II, a role model for many female leaders, symbol of a century, died on 8 September 2022. See her life in photos.

With about 270 archival collections, the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson is the most prestigious university institution for the study of Photography…

Today, Scala Archives is one of the essential sources for illustrating projects dedicated to Design and its history. Thanks to partnerships with prestigious museums such …

With about 1 million photographs, De Agostini Picture Library is the richest Italian photographic collection to illustrate projects of history, nature, science and ancient civilizations…

On the occasion of the exhibition held by MoMA (May 1 – September 10, 2022), we propose a focus on this masterpiece by Matisse: The Red Studio (1911)…

With over 100 national monuments represented, the CMN (Centre des Monuments Nationaux) is the designated institution for the protection and promotion of the French Cultural Heritage…

On 22 December 2015, the UN General Assembly established the World Day of Women and Girls in Science, to recognize the fundamental role that women and girls play in science and technological development…

Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1821, during his exile on the island of Saint Helena, Napoleon Bonaparte died.

On February 12, 1931 the training ship Amerigo Vespucci was launched at the Royal Shipyard.

On 31 January 1971 the Apollo 14 mission left; destination, Fra Mauro highlands.

“And so we went out to see the stars again” – Inferno canto XXXIV verse 139

How many idioms taken from the Divine Comedy do we use without noticing? …