Hans Peter L'Orange

Hans Peter L'Orange (2 March 1903 – 5 December 1983) was a Norwegian art historian and classical archaeologist.

From 1930 to 1936, he was a university fellow resident in Rome. He studied art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He took the dr.philos. degree at the University of Oslo in 1933 with his thesis Studien zur Geschichte des spätantiken Porträts. He was a professor of classical archaeology at the University of Oslo from 1942 to 1973.

He was a visiting professor at Harvard University (1950) and at Johns Hopkins University (1966–1967). In 1969, he was awarded the Arts Council Norway Honorary Award (Norsk kulturråds ærespris). He was awarded the Gunnerus Medal by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1970.

Selected works Apotheosis in Ancient Portraiture - 1947 Keiseren på himmeltronen - 1949 Romersk idyll - 1952 Mot middelalder - 1963 Romerske keisere i marmor og bronse- 1967 Sentrum og periferi. Ni utvalgte essays - 1973