Academies
Foundations, whose name comes from the Academy of Platon. The origins of the institution are in Italy of the 15th century, where the concentrations of the humanists were not slow to ensure the protection of the rulers (a known example was Accademia Platonica, which was founded in 1542 by Cosimo A’ of Medici). The Accademia di Disegno (Academy of Design) of Vasari (1562) was sent to maintain the official status of the artist (one of the most common motivation for creating similar institutions), but most of the other academies were basically teaching institutions, such as the College Karachi. In the decade of 1870, more than 100 colleges have already operated in Europe. Britain's best-known examples are: the Royal Academy of Music (R.A.M., 1922), the Royal College of Music (R.C.M., 1873) and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (R.A.D.A., 1904). The literary academies have sometimes worked as a senior judge in matters of language. The French Academy that founded in 1635 by Richelieu, has repeatedly been accused of undue conservatism, while as regards painting, the same criticism has been brought to the British Academy of Fine Arts (Academie Royale des Beaux Arts that founded in 1648 by Louis XIV, that disbanded in 1793 and reopened in 1816 as Academie des Beaux Arts).