Arcumeggia

Arcumeggia ( Arcümedschia in Varese dialect ) is a part of the community Casalzuigno in the province of Varese. This is in Lombardy (Italy).

The place is famous because in 1956 the provincial authority for tourism him into a Malort (Italian borgo dipinto ) transformed. Following this decision, various artists such as Ernesto Treccani, Achille Funi, Gianni Dova and Remo Brindisi who worked there.

The paintings, which are executed in Affresco technology, are located on the outer walls of local houses.

  • Giovanni Brancaccio: Ragazza alla finestra, 1956
  • Remo Brindisi: Abitanti e lavori del posto, 1957
  • Aldo Carpi: Sant'Ambrogio benedice Arcumeggia, 1966, Agnello divino (ceramics ), 1967
  • Cristoforo de Amicis: Madonna e angelo, 1958
  • Gianni Dova: La corrida, 1964
  • Umberto Faini: Allegoria della decorazione murale, 1994
  • Ferruccio Ferrazzi: Attesa, 1956
  • Achille Funi: Madonnina, 1956
  • Giuseppe Migneco: La partenza dell'emigrante, 1962
  • Francesco Menzio: Bambini tra gli alberi, 1956
  • Sante Monachesi: Trionfo di Gea, 1959
  • Giuseppe Montanari: San Martino e il povero, 1956
  • Luigi Montanarini: Composizione, 1959
  • Enzo Morelli: La Samaritana al Pozzo, 1956
  • Antonio Pedretti: Nelle Alpi, cuore d' Europe, le radici dell'Unione Europea, 2001
  • Bruno Saetti: Maternità, 1956
  • Innocente Salvini: La ripartizione della polenta in famiglia, 1971
  • Aligi Sassu: Corridori, 1967, San Martino, 1991
  • Fiorenzo Tomea: Crucifix, 1956
  • Eugenio Tomiolo: La Speranza, 1956
  • Ernesto Treccani: Composizione agreste, 1974
  • Gianfilippo Usellini: Il ritorno dell'emigrante, 1956, Severin bef pooc vin, 1964, Sant'Antonio and San Rocco, 1967! .

Next to the church there is a crossroads with frescoes, which were designed by eleven artists:

  • I - Giuseppe Montanari: The Jesus sentenced to death, 1963
  • II - Sante Monachesi: Jesus takes up his Cross, 1959
  • III - Aldo Carpi: Jesus falls the first time, 1963
  • IV - Remo Brindisi: Meeting of Jesus and Mary, 1960
  • V - Enzo Morelli: Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the Cross 1963
  • VI - Ilario Rossi: Veronica dries the face of Jesus, 1960
  • VII - Luigi Montanarini: Jesus falls the second time in 1959
  • VIII - Giuseppe Montanari: Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem, 1960
  • IX - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus falls the third time, after April 1960
  • X - Giovanni Brancaccio: The baring of his clothes Jesus, 1961
  • XI - Aligi Sassu: The nailed to the cross of Jesus, 1963 (? )
  • XII - Aldo Carpi: Jesus dies on the Cross, 1963
  • XIII - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus is taken down from the Cross, 1963
  • XIV - Eugenio Tomiolo: Jesus in the tomb, 1965

In addition, can be found in the village and the house of the painter, are stored in the sketches and samples of the frescoes and take place in the summer courses in painting, organized by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera.

Arcumeggia is the birthplace of the sculptor Giuseppe Vittorio Cerini (1862-1935), of the many works in Italy are kept ( Torino, Bra, Ceva, San Benigno Canavese, Virle and the province of Varese ) and abroad ( Switzerland and Argentina). You can visit a small plaster exhibition, which is located in the courtyard of the birth house and two works of marble in the local cemetery.

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