Piper, Ferdinand

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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 Didron, Charles Cahier, Camille Martin and Francis Xaver Kraus.

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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.

Bibliography: Mythologie und Symbolik der christlichen Kunst von der älterten Zeit bis in's sechzehnte Jahrhundert. 2 vols. Weimar: Landesindustrie-comptoir, 1847-1851.

Subject's name: Ferdinand Piper