Arcumeggia (Arcümégia in local dialect) is a fraction of the municipality of Casalzuigno in the province of Varese, in Italy.
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", 1956Remo Brindisi: "Inhabitants and jobs of the place", 1957Aldo Carpi: "Sant'Ambrogio blesses Arcumeggia", 1966, "Divine Lamb" (ceramics), 1967Cristoforo de Amicis "Madonna and angel", 1958Gianni Dova: "The bullfight", 1964Umberto Faini: "Allegory of the mural decoration", 1994Ferruccio Ferrazzi: "Waiting", 1956Achille Funi: "Madonnina", 1956Giuseppe Migneco: "The emigrant's departure", 1962Francesco Menzio: "Children among the trees", 1956Sante Monachesi: "Gea’s triumph", 1959Giuseppe Montanari: "St. Martin and the poor man", 1956Luigi Montanarini: "Composition", 1959Enzo Morelli: "The Samaritane at the well", 1956Antonio Pedretti: "In the Alps, heart of Europe, the roots of the European union", 2001Bruno Saetti: "Maternity", 1956Innocente Salvini: "The division of the polenta in family", 1971Aligi Sassu: "Racing cyclists", 1967 and "St. Martin", 1991Fiorenzo Tomea: "The Crucified", 1956Eugenio Tomiolo: "Hope", 1956Ernesto Treccani: "Rural composition", 1974Gianfilippo 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, 1963II - Sante Monachesi: Jesus is given his cross, 1959III - Aldo Carpi: Jesus falls the first time, 1963IV - Remo Brindisi: Jesus meets Maria, 1960V - Enzo Morelli: Jesus helped by Symone of Cirene, 1963VI - Ilario Rossi: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, 1960VII - Luigi Montanarini: Jesus falls the second time, 1959VIII – Giuseppe Montanari: Jesus meets the pious women, within 1960IX - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus falls the third time, after April 1960X - Giovanni Brancaccio: Jesus stripped of the dresses, 1961XI - Aligi Sassu: Jesus is nailed to the cross, 1963 (?)XII - Aldo Carpi: Jesus dies on the cross, 1963XIII - Gianfilippo Usellini: Jesus' body is removed from the cross, 1963XIV - Eugenio Tomiolo: Jesus is laid in the sepulchre, 1965Notable 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.
