Hjalmar Torp

Hjalmar Torp (14 April 1924 – 10 September 2023) was a Norwegian art historian.

Torp specialized in Byzantine art, and worked on a Langobardian tempietto (small temple) in Cividale del Friuli in the late 1940s, together with Einar Dyggve and Hans Peter L'Orange.

Following two years at Dumbarton Oaks from 1953 to 1955, Torp studied Coptic sculpture from Bawit in the late 1950s.

[1] He was a co-founder, or self-described "demiurge", of the Norwegian Institute in Rome in 1959, and worked there as a secretary until 1968.

He became a professor of medieval art history at the University of Oslo, and later served as director of the Norwegian Institute in Rome from 1977 to 1983.