Room 3 – THE SIXTIES: The elaboration of a new pictorial language:

Ranzoni and Cremona Scapigliatura is a movement encompassing all the arts: in painting it is the result of the meeting of two diverse and complementary artistic temperaments, Tranquillo Cremona and Daniele Ranzoni.
For a brief period these two were both students of Giuseppe Bertini, and then at the end of the decade, having met again, they decided to share an atelier and their daily existence.
Cremona was six years older than Ranzoni and his academic formation appeared more solid : from the Venetians to Hayez , his background included not only the tenure under Bertini but also a parenthesis in Pavia in which he had frequented Piccio and Faruffini.
Ranzoni, admitted at Brera at the age of thirteen as a prodigy child, had a difficult time, from 1856 to 1864 , because he had to switch between the Brera Academy in Milan, his own choice and the Turin Albertina, imposed by his sponsors, the trusties of the Caccia College in Novara to who he owed the scholarship which enabled him to study .
After officially concluding his artistic formation, he returned to his native Intra, on Lake Maggiore.
It was then one of the most thought after destination for the international expatriates and a congregating place for numerous Italian daguerreotypists.
In his home town, Ranzoni organized a “boheme” in which all the eccentric young people from the well to do bourgeoisie congregated.
The distance did not affect Ranzoni’s and Cremona‘s friendship rooted in their Milanese years : both young men were bent in translating life in terms of colors and brushwork, both considered Faruffini and Piccio as leading figures who had open the way to the optical experimentation geared to obtain luminist results.

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