Chandler Rathfon Post (1881–1959) was an American art historian and professor.[2] He was a professor emeritus at Harvard University (working from 1909 until 1950), focused as a historian of Spanish and Italian Renaissance art and iconography. Post authored the book series, A History of Spanish Painting.
Biography
Post was born on December 14, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan, to parents Anne M. Rathfon and William R. Post.[2][1]
Post was a prolific author and researcher, he started his first visual survey series with, History of European and American Sculpture (1921), which was two volume and is one of the earliest American art surveys published.[2] His survey series, A History of Spanish Painting (spanning publishing dates 1930–1953) was fourteen volumes in length and extensive in details.[7][8] His last two books in the Spanish painting series were published posthumous by Harold Edwin Wethey.
Post, Chandler R. (1915). Mediaeval Spanish Allegory. Volume 4 of Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN9783487401867.