Arcumeggia (Arcümégia in local dialect) is a fraction of the municipality of Casalzuigno in the province of Varese, in Italy.
Casalzuigno is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of Milan and about 14 kilometres (9 mi) northwest of Varese.
Varese is a city and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 kilometres (34 mi) north of Milan.
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe. Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Italy shares open land borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia and the enclaved microstates San Marino and Vatican City. Italy covers an area of 301,340 km2 (116,350 sq mi) and has a largely temperate seasonal and Mediterranean climate. With around 61 million inhabitants, it is the fourth-most populous EU member state and the most populous country in Southern Europe.
The place is known because in 1956 the Organization Provincial for the Tourism decided to turn it into a painted village. After such decision, came in the country artists as Ferruccio Ferrazzi, Aldo Carpi, Sante Monachesi, Aligi Sassu, Ernesto Treccani, Achille Funi, Giuseppe Migneco, Gianni Dova, Gianfilippo Usellini, Innocente Salvini, Giovanni Brancaccio, Bruno Saetti, Enzo Morelli, Remo Brindisi, Fiorenzo Tomea, Eugenio Tomiolo, Francesco Menzio, Ilario Rossi, Giuseppe Montanari, Cristoforo De Amicis, Luigi Montanarini, Umberto Faini, Antonio Pedretti and Albino Reggiori. The paintings, performed with the technique of the fresco, are on the external walls of the houses of the village:
Aldo Carpi was an Italian artist, painter and writer, author of a collection of memoirs concerning his imprisonment in the infamous Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
Aligi Sassu was an Italian painter and sculptor.
Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word fresco is derived from the Italian adjective fresco meaning "fresh", and may thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting.
A street of Arcumeggia, said "Students’ street" because there are on show the works of the students of Fine Arts Academies .
Giovanni Brancaccio: "Girl at the window", 1956
Remo Brindisi: "Inhabitants and jobs of the place", 1957
Umberto Faini: "Allegory of the mural decoration", 1994
Ferruccio Ferrazzi: "Waiting", 1956
Achille Funi: "Madonnina", 1956
Giuseppe Migneco: "The emigrant's departure", 1962
Francesco Menzio: "Children among the trees", 1956
Sante Monachesi: "Gea’s triumph", 1959
Giuseppe Montanari: "St. Martin and the poor man", 1956
Luigi Montanarini: "Composition", 1959
Enzo Morelli: "The Samaritane at the well", 1956
Antonio Pedretti: "In the Alps, heart of Europe, the roots of the European union", 2001
Bruno Saetti: "Maternity", 1956
Innocente Salvini: "The division of the polenta in family", 1971
Aligi Sassu: "Racing cyclists", 1967 and "St. Martin", 1991
Fiorenzo Tomea: "The Crucified", 1956
Eugenio Tomiolo: "Hope", 1956
Ernesto Treccani: "Rural composition", 1974
Gianfilippo Usellini: "The emigrant's return", 1956, "Sant'Antonio ",1967, "St. Rocco", 1967 and "Severin, drik little wine!!!", 1964.
View of Arcumeggia.
Close to the church, there is a Way of the Cross, with the stations painted by 11 different artists:
I - Giuseppe Montanari: Jesus is condemned to death, 1963
II - Sante Monachesi: Jesus is given his cross, 1959
III - Aldo Carpi: Jesus falls the first time, 1963
IV - Remo Brindisi: Jesus meets Maria, 1960
V - Enzo Morelli: Jesus helped by Symone of Cirene, 1963
VI - Ilario Rossi: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, 1960
VII - Luigi Montanarini: Jesus falls the second time, 1959
VIII – Giuseppe Montanari: Jesus meets the pious women, within 1960
IX - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus falls the third time, after April 1960
X - Giovanni Brancaccio: Jesus stripped of the dresses, 1961
XI - Aligi Sassu: Jesus is nailed to the cross, 1963 (?)
XII - Aldo Carpi: Jesus dies on the cross, 1963
XIII - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus' body is removed from the cross, 1963
XIV - Eugenio Tomiolo: Jesus is laid in the sepulchre, 1965
The Church with a Way of the Cross paint by 11 artists.
Notable it is also the House of the Painter that preserves the sketches and the tests of the frescos and hosts summer courses of painting organized by the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.
Arcumeggia is the native country of the sculptor Giuseppe Vittorio Cerini (1862–1935), of which numerous works are in Italy (Turin, Bra, Ceva, St. Benign Canavese, Virle and in the Varesotto) and in some foreign countries (Switzerland and Argentina). May be admired a small gallery of plaster casts in the courtyard of the native house and two marble works in the local cemetery.
Giuseppe Vittorio Cerini’s sculpture (1862-1935)
Bibliography
Arcumeggia, la galleria all'aperto dell'affresco. Edizione "Pro Arcumeggia" presso l'Ente Provinciale Turismo - Varese, 1985
Giuseppe Cerini di Arcumeggia - Lavoro di ricerca della libera associazione culturale "La corte dei Sofistici", 1999
Carlo Torriani: "Sui muri di Arcumeggia nuovo splendore per gli affreschi di Funi, Brindisi, Dova" - Corriere della sera del 27-7-1984
Aristide Selmi: "Se dovete andare in piazza Dova prendete via Tomea e poi via Sassu" - Domenica del Corriere dell'11-9-1975
Angelo Montonati: "Arcumeggia, il paese grandi firme" - Famiglia Cristiana n. 38, 1995
Meridiani - Laghi lombardi - Anno XVII n. 127
Arcumeggia - La galleria all'aperto dell'affresco a cura di Alberto Bertoni e Raffaella Ganna, Macchione Editore, 1997
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