Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Design school in Milan, Italy
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The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti ('new academy of fine arts'), abbreviated NABA, is a private academy of fine art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. In 2024–2025 it had approximately 5500 students.[1]
| Type | academy of fine art |
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| Established | 1980 |
| Students | about 5500[1] |
| Location | 45°26′44.14″N 9°10′28.38″E |
| Website | naba |
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History
The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti was started in Milan in 1980 by Guido Ballo, 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 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]
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.[8]
A branch was opened in the Garbatella district of Rome in 2019.[9]