Dictionary of Art Historians

Piper, Ferdinand

Full Name
Piper, Ferdinand
Other Names
Ferdinand Piper
Gender
male
Date Born
1811
Date Died
1889
Home Country
Germany
Subject Area
Christianity
iconography
Medieval (European)
Institution
Universität Berlin
Overview

Early iconographer of medieval Christian art. Willibald Sauerländer included Piper among the "pantheon of great [early] art historians" of medieval art whose numbers included Adolphe Napoléon Didron, Charles Cahier, Camille Martin and Franz Xaver Kraus.

Selected Bibliography
Mythologie und Symbolik der christlichen Kunst von der älterten Zeit bis in's sechzehnte Jahrhundert. 2 vols. Weimar: Landesindustrie-comptoir, 1847-1851.
Sources
Sauerländer, Willibald. "Émile Mâle." Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l'art actifs en France de la Révolution à la Première Guerre mondiale [website] http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?article2433.
Contributors
Lee Sorensen