Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti

For the Accademia di Belle Arti of Milan, see Brera Academy.

NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano
Typeacademy of fine art
Established1980
Students3000
Location
Milan
,
Italy

45°26′44.14″N 9°10′28.38″E / 45.4455944°N 9.1745500°E / 45.4455944; 9.1745500
Campusvia Darwin 20
Websitenaba.it
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The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti ('new academy of fine arts'), also known as NABA, is a private academy of fine art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. In 2013 it had approximately 3000 students,[1] some of them from abroad.

History

The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti was started in Milan in 1980 by Guido Ballo [it], Tito Varisco and Ausonio Zappa.[2]: 313  From 1985 to 1993 the artist Gianni Colombo was director of the school.[2]: 314  In 1994 it received one of the forty "Ambrogino" certificates of civic merit awarded each year by the Comune of Milan.[3] In 2008 the school began hosting a "node" of the Planetary-Collegium research platform of the University of Plymouth.[4]

It was bought by Bastogi [it] Spa of Milan in 2002. In December 2009 Bastogi sold it to Laureate Education of Baltimore, Maryland, for €22 million,[5][6] and in 2017, Laureate Education sold it to Galileo Global Education as part of a $263-million deal that also included Domus Academy.[7]

A branch campus was opened in the Garbatella district of Rome in 2019,[8] and another in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park of London in 2025.[9]

The school is listed by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, as a "legally recognised academy" in the AFAM classification of schools of music, art and dance that are considered equivalent to a traditional university.[10]

References

  1. ^ Why choose NABA. Milan: Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano. Archived 21 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b Olivier Bonfait (2005). Les Académies de Beaux-Arts en Italie (in French). Studiolo. 3 (2005): 299–325. doi:10.3406/studi.2005.1150.
  3. ^ Benemerenze Civiche (elenco aggiornato all'anno 2011) (in Italian). Accessed May 2013.
  4. ^ Planetary-Collegium. Plymouth University. Archived 6 September 2014.
  5. ^ Storia (in Italian). Bastogi Spa. Accessed May 2013.
  6. ^ Le scuole gioiello del design vendute a un colosso americano (in Italian). La Repubblica, 13 January 2010. Accessed May 2013.
  7. ^ Laureate Education, Inc. agrees to sell its institutions in Italy and Cyprus to Galileo Global Education (press release). Laureate Education. Accessed November 2017.
  8. ^ [s.n.] (2 April 2019). Naba apre una nuova sede a Roma: il 6 aprile l'open day (press release, in Italian). Il Sole 24 Ore. Accessed February 2026.
  9. ^ Danielle Wightman-Stone (14 July 2025). NABA to open its first campus outside Italy in London (press release). FashionUnited. Accessed February 2026.
  10. ^ AFAM, Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica: Accademie di belle arti legalmente riconosciute (in Italian). Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca. Accessed May 2013.
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