Featured Source for June 2025: Mondadori Portfolio
2 June 2025
akg-images is proud to represent Mondadori Portfolio.
Mondadori Portfolio is a prestigious Italian photo agency and image archive founded in 1907 in Ostiglia by Arnoldo Mondadori. It offers a wide collection of photographs, illustrations, and artwork for various uses, including editorial, commercial, and creative projects. Mondadori Portfolio's assets illustrate Italian history, art, lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment throughout the 20th century.
akg-images holds around 235,000 images from Mondadori Portfolio, available for editorial and creative use.
Enjoy this curated selection, including Mondadori's collections Electa and Biblioteca Ambrosiana. You can see more of the collection on the akg-images website.
Mondadori Portfolio
Images from the Mondadori Portfolio collections.
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. AKG9411327 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Archivio GBB
A girl in a flowered swimsuit sunbathing by the swimming pool with a cocktail in the hand. Finale Ligure, 1969 Finale Ligure, Italy. AKG2490294 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Pino Grossetti
Andy Warhol at his Stable Gallery in New York with his "Brillo Boxes" installation. Photo, 17th May 1964, by Mario de Biasi. AKG1800057 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio
Tourists watching the Dolomites landscape after they got the Faloria hut. Cortina d’Ampezzo, 1950s Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. AKG2790846 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio
A close-up of the director Federico Fellini in his house holding a marionette. Rome, 1960. AKG1627910 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Angelo Cozzi
Grace Kelly photographed in her bridal dress in a frescoed gallery within the Prince’s Palace, just before the wedding ceremony where she will marry Ranier III of Monaco, becoming princess of the Principality. Monaco, April 18th, 1956. AKG2139647 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio
A U.S. airman drawing the silhouettes of German planes shot down during battles on a B–24 Liberator. Provence, August 1944. AKG8727509 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio
Italian dancers Anna Baroni e Wanda Conti rehearsing a choreography on the Grand Hotel Rimini terrace. Rimini, July 1953. AKG4727535 © akg-images / Archivio Mario De Biasi distribuito da Mondadori Portfolio
AKG4727591 © akg-images / Pierluigi Praturlon / Reporters Associati & Archivi / Mondadori Portfolio
Pope John Paul II (Karol Jozef Wojtyla) and Italian cardinal Carlo Maria Martini on the popemobile greeting the crowd rushed up to attend the mass officiated in the district Gallaratese in Milan. Milan, 22nd May 1983. AKG2415879 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Nino Leto
French actor Alain Delon pausing on the set of The Leopard, directed by Italian director Luchino Visconti. Lying on the floor, resting his head on a dog's back. 1963. AKG4050555 © akg-images / Giovan Battista Poletto / Reporters Associati & Archivi / Mondadori Portfolio
Sons of fishermen playing cards beside a boat. Island of Lipari, 1950s Lipari, Italy. AKG2414398 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Archivio Angelo Cozzi / Angelo CozziElecta
Dedicated to art, Electa offers a range of high-quality materials on European artistic styles and movements, from the great classical masters to contemporary artists, including sculpture, architecture, archaeology, and more.
“Boy with a Basket of Fruit”, c. 1593/94. Caravaggio. AKG422931 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Electa
Theodelinda and Agilulf out hunting / Theodelinda’s dream / Procession of the court. Fresco, 1444, by the brothers Ambrogio, Gregorio and Francesco Zavattari. From the cycle on the life of Queen Theodelinda, 31st/32nd pict. Monza (Lombardy), Cathedral, Cappella di Teodolinda. AKG421549 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Electa
Kellenistic, 2nd C. BC. Sleeping hermaphrodite. Detail: head. Marble, 1.47m long. Roman copy, Antonine, 138–192 BC, after Greek original. Rome, Palazzo Massimo. AKG469441 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Electa
Crosier decorated with figures, 1425 – 1430. Bronze gilded and enamelled. Circle of Ghiberti Lorenzo, 15th Century. AKG1442948 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Nicolò Orsi Battaglini
“Madonna of the Rosary”, 1596/98. Detail: The mysteries of the Rosary (The 15 pearls of the rosary show scenes of the life of the Virgin and the Passion). Guido Reni, 1575–1642. Oil on canvas, 390 × 220cm. Bologna, Basilica della Madonna di San Luca. AKG381934 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Electa
Beard comb with depiction of fighting Scythians above a lion frieze. Detail. Gold, height 12.3cm, width 10.2cm. Found at: Kurgan Solokha, steppe zone in the Dnepr region. AKG381997 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Electa
Vertumnus and Pomona Pontormo, origin. Jacopo Carucci. 1494–1556. “Vertumnus and Pomona”, 1519/21. Fresco, 461 × 990cm. Poggio a Caiano (Tuscany, Italy), Villa Medicea. AKG420412 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Electa
"Lobsters" (Aragoste). Three lobsters and three lemons resting on a checkered cloth. Painting, 1930s, by Pasquarosa Bertoletti Marcelli (1896-1973). AKG2947458 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / ElectaPhotographers in Focus
The archive of Mondadori Portfolio comprises not only a wealth of fine art photography, but also an array of vintage photographic collections: gems from the renowned photographers Walter Mori, Mario de Biasi, Carlo Bavagnoli and Sergio del Grande.
Young woman reading at Milano Centrale Railway Station. Photo, 1961. AKG2860142 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Walter Mori
Vittorio Emanuele II Gallery in Milan. Photo, 1950s. AKG1628182 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Mario De Biasi
Longarone (Belluno), Italy. Don Pietro Bez standing next to a large bell, indicates the place where the parish church once stood. Photo, 1965. AKG1632740 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Sergio Del Grande
Woman holding a gun in Revolution Square in Havana. Photo, 1964. AKG1632364 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Sergio Del Grande
Men Sitting on a Roof in Buenos Aires. Photo, 1970. AKG1733082 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Mario De Biasi
Three young marines are drinking beer in front of the small café ‘Piccolo Moka’. Two boys are looking at them. Palermo, 1956. AKG1734991 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Carlo Bavagnoli
The billionaire entrepreneur Tony Parravano observing a Ferrari race car under construction. Modena, Italy, 1950sAKG2946471 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Carlo Bavagnoli
Teenagrs Running in the Surf at Forte dei Marmi, Italy. Photo, 1966. AKG2601795 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio / Walter Mori
Biblioteca Ambrosiana
The Biblioteca Ambrosiana is a historic library in Milan, Italy, founded in 1609 by Cardinal Federico Borromeo, whose agents scoured Western Europe and even Greece and Syria for books and manuscripts. Some major acquisitions were the manuscripts of the Benedictine monastery of Bobbio, the library of the Paduan Vincenzo Pinelli and twelve manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, including the Codex Atlanticus.
Sala Fredericiana, the first reading room of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Lombardy, Italy. AKG6030392 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Gianni Cigolini
The shepherd symbolizing the Eclogues, detail from the Mosaic reproducing the Frontispiece of the Ambrosian Virgil by Francesco Petrarca, 1930-1931, drawing by Carlo Bocca and Giovanni Buffa, mosaics by Rodolfo Gregorini, copy from the illumination by Simone Martini (1284-1344), 1340, Esedra Hall. AKG6029343 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Gianni Cigolini
Luigi Cavenaghi (1844-1918), Angel, 1888-1890, fresco ripped off and mounted on canvas, 211x235 cm. AKG6031296 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Pope Boniface VIII in the Loggia of the Blessing at the Lateran Palace, by unknown artist. The drawing is a copy from the fresco (about 1300) that some critics attribute to Giotto. AKG6028554 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Icas94
Head of Christ the Redeemer, painting by Gian Giacomo Caprotti known as Andrea Salai (1480-1524), oil on panel, cm 57.5x37.5, detail. AKG6029226 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Gianni Cigolini
Triumph of the Christian Virtues at the Entrance of Carlo Gaetano Stampa, archbishop of Milan, represented by the Schools of Christian Doctrine, by Agostino Ferrario (18th century), inv O 238 sup, sheet 10. AKG6029189 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), Codex Atlanticus, sheet 26 verso. On the left, water lifting machine; on the right, machine drawing the water from a well and driving it to houses. AKG6034445 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Metis e Mida Informatica
Illumination, Inv. C 53 sup, sheet 3 verso (with chromatic modifications). AKG6029543 © akg-images / Mondadori Portfolio/Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/Mauro RanzaniWe're ready to help you with your picture research and image licensing requirements.
