An Istituto di Belle Arti, a government-controlled art school, is found at Florence, Bologna, Lucca, Modena, Naples, Palermo, Parma, Venice and Siena (provincial). In Milan, Perugia, and Ravenna similar art schools are known as Accademia di Belle Arti. The Istituto Superiore di Belle Arti is at Rome.
There are in most of the provinces elementary schools of Arts and Crafts or Fine Arts where design and modeling are taught. The various higher institutions of learning also have art classes. Among the important schools of art in Madrid are: Escuela especial de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, in Calle de Alcali. The Escuela Superior de Bellos Oficios is in Barcelona.
The following are the chief schools of art : Amsterdam: The State Academy of Fine Arts, The Central Institute for Decorative and Industrial Arts; The Hague: Acad emy of Fine Arts; Rotterdam: Academy of Fine Arts and Applied Sciences; Haarlem: School of Architecture, Decorative Arts and Trade Arts; Utrecht: Museum School of Industrial Arts.
Belgium.—As an art center, Brussels has one of the largest and most active art schools of the world, the Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts et Ecole des Arts Decoratifs. This school had its inception when in 171T the Magistracy of Brussels gave a room in the Hotel de Vile to the Deans of Painters, Sculptors, and Dec orators to practice their art there. From this beginning it has ever since, excepting periods of war, received substantial patronage; the great families of Brussels vied with one another in giving gifts of money and of models. (X.) Outside of Paris.—The Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, at Lyons, is modeled after the one of the same name in Paris. Other Beaux-Arts schools are at Dijon and Algiers, North Africa. "Regional" schools, supported by the State, provide free instruction in industrial and decorative arts at Amiens, Clermont Ferrand, Montpellier, Nancy, Reims, Rouen, St. Etienne and
Tours. There are many "Municipal" art schools, also maintained by the State, and a few independent schools of very high rank. Four Ecoles Nationales des Arts Decoratifs, three Ecoles Nation ales Speciales, and two Regional Schools of Industrial Art are also of interest. Information concerning the various art schools may be secured from the American University Union, Paris.
The leading art schools of Germany are the government-managed "Kunstakademien." Of the various institutions in the individual cities, including also some "Kunstge werbeschulen" (schools for applied art) the following may be mentioned : Berlin: Akademische Hochschule fur die bildenden Kiinste, Akademisches Meisteraltelier fur die bildendem Kiinste, Preussiche Akademie der Kunst, Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstge werbemuseums ; Breslau : Akademie fur Kunst und Kunstgewerbe; Dresden : Akademie der bildenden Kiinste, Staatliche Akademie fur Kunstgewerbe; Frankfort : Statische Kunstgewerbeschule; Hamburg : Staatliche Kunstgewerbeschule; Hanover : Kunstge werblicher Unterricht fur Frauen und Meidchen; Cologne : Kunst gewerbe und Handwerkerschule der Stadt 'Coln; Leipzig : Stoat liche Akademie fur graphische Kfinste and Buchgewerbe ; Munich : Bayerische Akademie der bildenden Kfinste, Staatliche Kunstge werbeschule Mfinchen, and Malschule der Stiidtischen Kunstge werbeschule. Other important art schools are at Cassel, Karls ruhe, Konigsberg, Potsdam, Stuttgart and Weimar. In Austria the Kunstgewerbe Scliule in Vienna is of outstanding importance as well as the Akademie der Bildenden Kfinste.