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 students.Accademia di Belle Arti legalmente riconosciuta di Milano "Nuova Accademia di belle arti - NABA" (in Italian). Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca: Portale dei dati dell'istruzione superiore. Accessed April 2026.
History
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.Benemerenze Civiche (elenco aggiornato all'anno 2011) (in Italian). Accessed May 2013. In 2008 the school began hosting a "node" of the Planetary-Collegium research platform of the University of Plymouth.Planetary-Collegium. Plymouth University. Archived 6 September 2014.
It was bought by Spa of Milan in 2002. In December 2009 Bastogi sold it to Laureate Education of Baltimore, Maryland, for €22 million,Storia (in Italian). Bastogi Spa. Accessed May 2013.Le scuole gioiello del design vendute a un colosso americano (in Italian). La Repubblica, 13 January 2010. Accessed May 2013. and in 2017, Laureate Education sold it to Galileo Global Education as part of a $263-million deal that also included Domus Academy.Laureate Education, Inc. agrees to sell its institutions in Italy and Cyprus to Galileo Global Education (press release). Laureate Education. Accessed November 2017.
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.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.
A branch was opened in the Garbatella district of Rome in 2019.[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.
References Olivier Bonfait (2005). Les Académies de Beaux-Arts en Italie (in French). Studiolo. 3 (2005): 299–325. .