Editing Liceo Artistico Edgardo Mannucci (section)

== History ==

The school has operated since 1961, when the Ministry of Public Instruction accepted a request from the local administration to fill a gap in the city's provision of schools. In the years immediately following, it drew on the decisive contribution of the sculptor [[Edgardo Mannucci]], both in its teaching method and in its broader vision of the role of artistic training. Conceiving of art as continuous research arising from dialogue with young students, Mannucci ran the school as a studio and workshop, tying his own artistic practice directly to its teaching. Founded as the ''Istituto Statale d'Arte'' of Ancona, it was later named in his honour; following the [[w:Gelmini reform|2010 national reform]] of upper secondary education, the former ''istituto d'arte'' was reorganized as a ''liceo artistico''.

In 1989 (school year 1989–90) a detached campus was opened in [[w:Jesi|Jesi]], within School District no. 8, to provide training in the applied arts and to renew the local [[w:Goldsmith|goldsmithing]] tradition through workshops in [[w:Metalworking|metalwork]] and decorative painting (''didattica del saper fare''). The [[w:Fabriano|Fabriano]] campus, founded in 1979 within School District no. 7, long specialized in advertising [[w:Graphic design|graphics]] and [[w:Photography|photography]] in a strongly industrial area, helping many graduates enter the fields of visual and advertising communication; in the 1996/97 school year it was merged into the Istituto d'Arte "E. Mannucci" of Ancona, joining the provincial centre for artistic education.