MS Saturnia
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MV Saturnia was an Italian ocean liner named after Saturnia, Tuscany, the first of two sister ships built in Trieste for Cosulich Soc. Triestina di Nav. of Trieste and launched in 1925. Sister ship MS
Saturnia as Italian troop ship passing through Suez Canal, Sept. 1935.
Saturnia brochure by Argio Orell
MV Saturnia in 1943. The ship was engaged in repatriation of Italian civilians from East Africa under the Red Cross.
USAHS Frances Y. Slanger docked at New York Harbor in 1945.
Argio Orell
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Argio Orell was an Italian painter and engraver. He was one of the most sought-after Italian portraitists in the 1920s and 1930s.
MS Saturnia
…in an intense publicity campaign to advertise the two new ships, which incorporated new artistic movements of the time, by employing period artist Argio Orell, Augusto Cernigoj and Filippo Romoli. As part of the advertising for the new ship, associated with Italian nationalist sentiment, was the name, evoking…
Argio Orell
Portorose manifesto, 1920
Ritratto femminile, oil on panel
Il Navarca, oil on panel