Editing Milan (section)

=== Art academies ===
[[File:Il Conservatorio di Musica di Milano.jpg|thumb|[[Milan Conservatory]]]]
Milan is also well known for its fine arts and music schools. The Milan Academy of Fine Arts (Brera Academy) is a public [[academic institution]] founded in 1776 by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria; the [[Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano|New Academy of Fine Arts]] is the largest private art and design university in Italy;<ref>{{cite web|title=About us |url=http://www.italian-design-academy.com/site/en/home/about-us.html |publisher=Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano |access-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121116013951/http://www.italian-design-academy.com/site/en/home/about-us.html |archive-date=16 November 2012}}</ref> the [[Istituto Europeo di Design|European Institute of Design]] is a private university specialised in fashion, industrial and interior design, audio/visual design including photography, advertising and marketing and business communication; the [[Istituto Marangoni|Marangoni Institute]], is a fashion institute with campuses in Milan, London and Paris; the [[Domus Academy]] is a private postgraduate institution of design, fashion, architecture, interior design and management; the Pontifical Ambrosian Institute of Sacred Music, a college of music founded in 1931 by the blessed cardinal A.I. Schuster, archbishop of Milan, and raised according to the rules by the Holy See in 1940, is—similarly to the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, which is consociated with—an Institute "ad instar facultatis" and is authorised to confer university qualifications with canonical validity<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unipiams.org |title=Pontificio Istituto Ambrosiano di Musica Sacra: What is it? |publisher=Unipiams.org |access-date=12 April 2013 |archive-date=21 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130421050535/http://www.unipiams.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Milan Conservatory, a college of music established in 1807, currently Italy's largest with more than 1,700 students and 240 music teachers.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.consmilano.it/index.php?id=212 |title=Conservatorio di musica "G.Verdi" di Milano: Introduzione |publisher=Consmilano.it |access-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106215436/http://www.consmilano.it/index.php?id=212 |archive-date=6 November 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>