Martina Pippal (born 1957) is an Austrian art historian and a painter and sculptor.
Growing up in the studio of her parents she early acquired skills in several artistic techniques.
Since her Habilitation 1991 she works as an associate professor at the Department of Art History of the University of Vienna.
Martina Pippal's scholarly approach to the history of visual media relies on the methodology of cultural studies combined with iconology, and stylistic analysis in the tradition of the Vienna School of Art History.
She is particularly interested in the period of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, but also in the visual media of the 20th century and contemporary art.