Staale Sinding-Larsen
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Staale Sinding-Larsen (born 12 April 1929) is a Norwegian art historian. He was born in
Oslo Oslo ( or ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population of 1,064,235 in 2022 ...
. He took the
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degree in 1975 with the doctoral thesis ''Christ in the Council Hall. Studies in the Religious Iconography of the Venetian Republic''. After one year as guest scholar at
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, he became professor of
architectural history The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings of all these traditions is thought to be humans satisfying the very basic need of shelt ...
at the
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in 1969, also serving as director of the Norwegian Institute in Rome from 1983 to 1986. He is a member of the
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (, DNVA) is a learned society based in Oslo, Norway. Its purpose is to support the advancement of science and scholarship in Norway. History The Royal Frederick University in Christiania was establis ...
.


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1929 births Living people Writers from Oslo Norwegian art historians Architectural historians Academic staff of the Norwegian Institute of Technology Norwegian expatriates in Italy Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters {{norway-academic-bio-stub