Academies of Art and schools of Design: a comparative study of Art and Design education

Design education has rapidly spread worldwide since the midtwentieth century. In some countries, design schools have enormously increased in number compared with art schools. The delicate but essential oneness of art and design education will be viewed in a long perspective of history spanning from the Accademia del Disegno founded in Firenze in 1563 to the Government School of Design founded in London in 1837, and to the écoles d’art et de design in France in the twenty-first century.