The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti was started in Milan in 1980 by , Tito Varisco and Ausonio Zappa. From 1985 to 1993 the artist
Gianni Colombo was director of the school. In 1994 it received one of the forty "Ambrogino" certificates of civic merit awarded each year by the
Comune of Milan. In 2008 the school began hosting a "node" of the Planetary-Collegium research platform of the
University of Plymouth. It was bought by Spa of Milan in 2002. In December 2009 Bastogi sold it to
Laureate Education of
Baltimore, Maryland, for €22 million, and in 2017, Laureate Education sold it to
Galileo Global Education as part of a $263-million deal that also included
Domus Academy. 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. A branch was opened in the
Garbatella district of Rome in 2019. == References ==