Chandler Rathfon Post
{{short description|American art historian}}
{{Infobox scholar
| name = Chandler Rathfon Post
| image = Chandler Rathfom Post, 1922.jpg
| caption = Post, 1922
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1881|12|14}}{{Cite web|title=Post, Chandler Rathfon, 1881-1959|url=http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kp9mnc|website=SNAC}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1959|11|02|1881|12|14}}
| death_place = Foxborough, Massachusetts, US
| alma_mater = Harvard University
|thesis_year=1909|thesis_title=Castillian Allegory of the Fifteenth Century, with Especial Reference to the Influence of Dante|doctoral_advisor=Jeremiah D. M. Ford|workplaces=Harvard University (1909–1950)|discipline=Art history|othernames=Chandler R. Post|notable_students=Walter William Spencer Cook}}
Chandler Rathfon Post (1881–1959) was an American art historian and professor.{{Cite web|title=Post, Chandler R.|url=https://arthistorians.info/postc|url-status=live|website=The Dictionary of Art Historians|date=21 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326003744/http://arthistorians.info/postc |archive-date=2019-03-26 }} 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.
Post attended Harvard University, his classmates included Franklin D. Roosevelt and Hayward Keniston, and graduated in 1904, with a B.A. degree in Spanish literature. After graduation he studied Greek literature at American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.{{Cite web|title=Chandler Rathfon Post|url=https://www.enciclopedia.cat/ec-gec-0052394.xml?kt_subject=ROOT@ARBRES@ARBRE%20DEL%20CONEIXEMENT@hist%C3%B2ria@Hist%C3%B2ria%20(per%20%C3%A0mbits%20tem%C3%A0tics)@Hist%C3%B2ria%20de%20l%27art@Historiadors%20de%20l%27art@Historiadors%20de%20l%27art%20(Am%C3%A8rica)@Historiadors%20de%20l%27art%20(EUA)@Chandler%20Rathfon%20Post#.U6EtJJR_u8A|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-04|website=enciclopèdia.cat|language=Catalan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404043627/http://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0052394.xml?kt_subject=ROOT%40ARBRES%40ARBRE%20DEL%20CONEIXEMENT%40hist%C3%B2ria%40Hist%C3%B2ria%20%28per%20%C3%A0mbits%20tem%C3%A0tics%29%40Hist%C3%B2ria%20de%20l%27art%40Historiadors%20de%20l%27art%40Historiadors%20de%20l%27art%20%28Am%C3%A8rica%29%40Historiadors%20de%20l%27art%20%28EUA%29%40Chandler%20Rathfon%20Post |archive-date=2015-04-04 }} In 1909, Post received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His thesis was titled, Castillian Allegory of the Fifteenth Century, with Especial Reference to the Influence of Dante (1909), and his doctoral advisor was Jeremiah D. M. Ford.
In 1914, he started teaching at Harvard, first as assistant professor of Greek Art and Fine Arts. By 1934, he was appointed as the William Dorr Boardman professor of Fine Arts. Students of Post included John Dos Passos and Walter William Spencer Cook.{{Cite book|last=Carr|first=Virginia Spencer|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/10023036|title=Dos Passos : a life|date=1984|isbn=0-385-12964-5|edition=[First edition]|location=Garden City, New York|oclc=10023036}}{{Cite web|title=Cook, Walter W. S.|url=https://arthistorians.info/cookw|url-status=live|website=The Dictionary of Art Historians|date=21 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324162419/http://arthistorians.info/cookw |archive-date=2018-03-24 }}{{Cite web|title=Walter William Spencer Cook|url=https://www.enciclopedia.cat/ec-gec-0019654.xml|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-04|website=Enciclopèdia.cat|language=Catalan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150411170523/http://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0019654.xml |archive-date=2015-04-11 }}
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. His survey series, A History of Spanish Painting (spanning publishing dates 1930–1953) was fourteen volumes in length and extensive in details.{{Cite web|last=Jewell|first=Edward Alden|date=October 19, 1947|title=A HISTORY OF SPANISH PAINTING. By Chandler Rathfon Post. Vol. IX, in two parts. 945 pp. Illustrated. Boston, Mass.: Harvard University Press. $20 a set.; For the Art-Lover's Bookrack|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/10/19/104349470.html|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-03-05|website=Times Machine|publisher=The New York Times|language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Jewell|first=Edward Alden|date=December 10, 1933|title=New Books On Art|work=The New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1933/12/10/100814565.html?pageNumber=59|url-access=subscription|access-date=2021-03-05}} His last two books in the Spanish painting series were published posthumous by Harold Edwin Wethey.
Post was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web |title=Chandler Rathfon Post |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/chandler-rathfon-post |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |date=9 February 2023 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chandler+R.+Post&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-03-21 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}
He died November 2, 1959, in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Publications
- {{Cite book|last=Post|first=Chandler R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TT4ltwAACAAJy|title=Mediaeval Spanish Allegory|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1915|isbn=9783487401867|series=Volume 4 of Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}
- {{Cite book|last=Post|first=Chandler R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BdwgAAAAMAAJ|title=A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period to the Present Day, Volume 1|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1921|edition=1|volume=1|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=9780722229798}}
- {{Cite book|last=Post|first=Chandler R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qx8oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PT2|title=A History of European and American Sculpture from the Early Christian Period to the Present Day, Volume 2|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1921|edition=1|volume=2|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts}}
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