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1 Andrew Butterfield Bibliography As of October 2019 BOOKS AND Andrew Butterfield Bibliography As of October 2019 BOOKS AND CATALOGUES Verrocchio, Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, editor, exhibition catalogue, Princeton, 2019. Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Bust of the Savior, editor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2016. Donatello in Motion, A Spiritello Rediscovered, editor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2015. “One of the Most Beautiful Things”: A Rediscovered Masterpiece by Antonio Corradini, editor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2013. Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2010. Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting, co-authored with Michael Clark and Edgar Peters Bowron, exhibition catalogue, The High Museum of Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010-2011. Andrea del Verrocchio: The Head of a Gorgon, Sotheby’s, London and New York, 2008. Bernini: The Last Portrait Bust, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2004. Italian Renaissance Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2004. Bernini: The Modello for the Fountain of the Moor, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2002. Italian Sculpture from the Gothic to the Baroque, co-authored with Anthony Radcliffe, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2002. Vittoria and Tiepolo: The Giulio Contarini Bust and the Drawings It Inspired, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2001. Masterpieces of Renaissance Art, Eight Rediscoveries, co-authored with Anthony Radcliffe, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2001. Early Renaissance Reliefs, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2001. Masterpieces of Renaissance Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1999. The Jacques Koerfer Collection, Christie's International Media, New York and London, 1999. 1 The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1997. The Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz, Christie’s, New York, November 10, 1997 (editor, principal author, and chief designer). ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND CATALOGUE ENTRIES “Andrea del Verrocchio: Artist of Wondrous Skill,” in Andrew Butterfield, ed., Verrocchio, Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, National Gallery of Art, 2019, pp. 1-29. “Divine Lust,” The New York Review of Books, January 18, 2018, pp. 27-28., http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/01/18/michelangelo-divine-lust/. “Forged in the Florentine Furnace: Rediscovering a Renaissance sculptor who’s art most resembled Dante’s,” review of Il Paradiso Ritrovato by Annamaria Giusti and Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise by Amy R. Bloch, Times Literary Supplement, December 15, 2017, p. 32. “Review: The Secret to ‘Seeing Slowly’,” The Wall Street Journal, November 18-19, 2017, C9. “Raphael Up Close,” The New York Review Daily, July 15, 2017, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/07/15/raphael-up-close/. “Christ Crucified,” in Judith W. Mann and Elizabeth Wyckoff, ed., Learning to See: Renaissance and Baroque Masterworks from the Phoebe Dent Weil and Mark S. Weil Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, 2017, pp. 218-220. “The First Cosmopolitans: The preoccupations of Hellenistic civilizations, as reflected in their art,” review of Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms of the Ancient World, Times Literary Supplement, June 3, 2016, pp. 19-20. “Botticelli: Love, Wisdom, Terror,” The New York Review of Books, May 26, 2016, pp. 16-18, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/05/26/botticelli-love-wisdom-terror/. “Statues of Wrath and Serenity,” The New York Review Daily, February 20, 2016, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/02/20/wrathful-serene-kamakura/. “Disparate States of Being,” review of Picasso Sculpture, Times Literary Supplement, October 16, 2015, p. 17. “The Magic of Donatello,” The New York Review of Books, April 23, 2015, pp. 12-14, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/apr/23/magic-donatello/. Also published as “He Brought Stone to Life,” The New York Review Daily, March 4, 2015, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2015/mar/04/donatello-brought-stone-life/. Review of Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini: Sculptors’ Drawings from Renaissance Italy in The Burlington Magazine, 157, February 2015, pp. 127-29. 2 “Max Seidel, Father and Son: Nicola and Giovanni Pisano,” Sculpture Journal, Volume 23, Issue 3, 2014, pp. 404-406. "Rembrandt in the Depths," The New York Review Daily, November 7, 2014, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/nov/07/rembrandt-late-works/. “Prodigious Veronese,” The New York Review of Books, June 19, 2014, pp. 4-6, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/19/prodigious-veronese/. Also published as “Majesty, Vehemence, Splendor,” The New York Review Daily, May 17, 2014, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/may/17/veronese-majesty-vehemence-splendor/. “The Serene Beauty of Canova,” The New York Review Daily, February 11, 2014, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/gallery/2014/feb/11/serene-beauty-canova/. “Trapped in Vienna,” The New York Review Daily, December 6, 2013, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/dec/06/trapped-vienna-1900-portraits/. “Sad and Supreme,” The New York Review of Books, June 10, 2013, pp. 18-20, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/jun/20/albrecht-durer-sad-and-supreme/. Also published as “Durer’s Devil Within,” The New York Review Daily, May 20, 2013, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/may/20/durer-devil-within/. “The Rebirth of the Sculpted Portrait in 15th-Century Florence,” in Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Marc Bormand, (ed.), The Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence, 1400-60, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2013-14, pp. 212-221. “The Triumph of Bronze,” The New York Review of Books, December 20, 2012, pp. 20-24, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/dec/20/triumph-bronze/. “Recasting the Ancients,” The New York Review Daily, July 25, 2012, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/jul/25/antico-recasting-ancients/. “They Clamor for Our Attention,” The New York Review of Books, March 8, 2012, pp. 10-12, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/mar/08/they-clamor-our-attention- renaissance-portrait/. “What Remains,” The New Republic, August 18, 2011, pp. 26-31, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/92804/medieval-christian-art- relics. “Gossart: The Glow of Inspiration,” The New York Review of Books, March 10, 2011, pp. 19-20, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/mar/10/gossart-glow-inspiration/. Also published, “The Unexpected Pleasures of Jan Gossart,” The New York Review Daily, January 8, 2011, http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/08/unexpected-pleasures-jan- gossart/. “Titian and the Rebirth of Tragedy,” The New York Review of Books, December 23, 2010, pp. 16-22, 3 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/dec/23/titian-and-rebirth-tragedy/. “A ‘Virgin and Child’ attributed to Andrea Sansovino,” The Burlington Magazine 152, November 2010, pp. 723-726. “The Fierce Emotions of Siena,” The New York Review of Books, October 14, 2010, pp. 38-40, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/oct/14/fierce-emotions-siena/. Review of Leonardo and Sculpture, in The Burlington Magazine 152, August 2010, pp. 570-571. “A Responding Sensibility,” [on Meyer Schapiro], The New Republic, March 3, 2010, pp. 31-36, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/books-and-arts/responding-sensibility. Review of Linda Pisani, Francesco di Simone. Itinerari di uno scultore fiorentino fra Toscana, Romagna e Montefeltro, Florence, 2007, in The Burlington Magazine 151, November 2009, p. 772. “Tiziano, Tintoretto e Veronese,” Rivista dei Libri, October, 2009, pp. 4-7 [Translated reprint of “Venice: The Masters in Boston” The New York Review of Books, July 16, 2009, pp. 12-13. See below.]. “Venice: The Masters in Boston,” The New York Review of Books, July 16, 2009, pp. 12-13, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jul/16/venice-the-masters-in-boston/. “Sacred furor: Riccio & antiquity,” The New Criterion, March 2009, pp. 15-19. “Alla scoperta dei Maestri,” Rivista dei Libri, March 3, 2009, pp. 4-8 [Translated reprint of “Sacred, Earthy & Sublime,” The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009, pp. 14-18. See below.]. “Sacred, Earthy & Sublime,” [on Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini], The New York Review of Books, January 15, 2009, pp. 14-18, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/sacred-earthy-sublime/. “The Genius of George Inness,” The New York Review of Books, September 15, 2008, pp. 8-10, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/sep/25/the-genius-of-george-inness/. “La pittura magica di Poussin,” Rivista dei Libri, May, 2008 [Translated reprint of “The Magical Painting of Poussin,” The New York Review of Books, April 17, 2008, pp. 18-22. See below.]. “The Magical Painting of Poussin,” The New York Review of Books, April 17, 2008, pp. 18-22, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/apr/17/the-magical-painting-of-poussin/. “Recreating Picasso,” The New York Review of Books, December 20, 2007, pp. 12-16, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/dec/20/recreating-picasso/. “The Laughing Boy and the Invention of Sculpture,” [on Desiderio da Settignano and Florentine sculpture], The New Republic, September 24, 2007, pp. 36-41. “Art and Innovation in Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise,” in Gary Radke, (ed.), The Gates of Paradise, 4 catalogue of an exhibition at The High Museum, Atlanta, The Art Institute of Chicago, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, pp. 16-41. “Brush with Genius,” [on Tintoretto], The New York Review of Books, April 26, 2007, pp. 10-14, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2007/apr/26/brush-with-genius/. Review of Dario Covi, Andrea del Verrocchio. Life and Work, Florence, 2005, in The Burlington Magazine, 149, January 2007, p. 44. “Le vette del piacere,” [translated reprint of “The Heights of Pleasure,” see below], La Rivista dei Libri, November 2006, pp. 6-9. “The Heights of Pleasure,” [on Giambologna], The New York Review of Books, September 21, 2006, pp.
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