page_title: Arcumeggia
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Arcumeggia / Overview
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Arcumeggia - La Chiesa con la Via Crucis
context_page_description: Arcumeggia is a fraction of the municipality of Casalzuigno in the province of Varese, in Italy.
context_section_description: 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:
  Giovanni Brancaccio: "Girl at the window", 1956
  Remo Brindisi: "Inhabitants and jobs of the place", 1957
  Aldo Carpi: "Sant'Ambrogio blesses Arcumeggia", 1966, "Divine Lamb" (ceramics), 1967
  Cristoforo de Amicis "Madonna and angel", 1958
  Gianni Dova: "The bullfight", 1964
  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.
  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
  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.
caption: The Church with a Way of the Cross paint by 11 artists.
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