Full Name: Piper, Ferdinand
Other Names:
- Ferdinand Piper
Gender: male
Date Born: 1811
Date Died: 1889
Home Country/ies: Germany
Subject Area(s): Christianity, iconography, and Medieval (European)
Institution(s): 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