Hjalmar Torp

Hjalmar Torp is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He has been honoured with the Silver Medal of Hagios Demetrios from the Holy Diocese of Thessaloniki and is an honorary citizen of the city of Cividale del Friuli and Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. His books include Il Tempietto Longobardo di Cividale. L'architettura del Tempietto (Roma 1977); The Integrating System of Proportion in Byzantine Art. An...See more

Hjalmar Torp is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo and Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He has been honoured with the Silver Medal of Hagios Demetrios from the Holy Diocese of Thessaloniki and is an honorary citizen of the city of Cividale del Friuli and Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. His books include Il Tempietto Longobardo di Cividale. L'architettura del Tempietto (Roma 1977); The Integrating System of Proportion in Byzantine Art. An Essay on the Method of the Painters of Holy Images (Rome 1984); Bilder og billedbruk i Bysants (with B. Kiilerich, Oslo 1998). He has previously published with Kapon Editions: The Rotunda in Thessaloniki and its Mosaics (with B. Kiilerich, Athens 2017; English and Greek editions, paperback, 64pp, GBP12.00). See less