Staale Sinding-Larsen (born 12 April 1929) is a Norwegian art historian. He was born in Oslo. 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 New York University, he became professor of architectural history at the

Norwegian Institute of Technology The Norwegian Institute of Technology (Norwegian: ''Norges tekniske høgskole'', NTH) was a science institute in Trondheim, Norway. It was established in 1910, and existed as an independent technical university for 58 years, after which it was m ...

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.

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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