Andrew Butterfield is President of Andrew Butterfield Fine Arts. His books include The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio and Body and Soul: Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture. (December 2012)
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The Triumph of Bronze
December 20, 2012
Bronze
an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 15–December 9, 2012
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They Clamor for Our Attention
March 8, 2012
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
an exhibition at the Bode-Museum Berlin, August 25–November 20, 2011, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, December 21, 2011–March 18, 2012
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Gossart: The Glow of Inspiration
March 10, 2011
Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance
an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, October 5, 2010–January 17, 2011; and the National Gallery, London, February 23–May 30, 2011
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Titian and the Rebirth of Tragedy
December 23, 2010
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The Fierce Emotions of Siena
October 14, 2010
Marco Romano e il contesto artistico senese fra Duecento e Trecento (Marco Romano and the Sienese Artistic Context Between the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries)
an exhibition at the Museo Civico, Archeologico e della Collegiata, Casole d'Elsa, March 27–October 3, 2010
Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello: Le arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento (From Jacopo della Quercia to Donatello: Sienese Art in the Early Renaissance) an exhibition held at Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, March 26–July 11, 2010
Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece
edited by Machtelt Israëls
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Venice: The Masters in Boston
July 16, 2009
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 15–August 16, 2009, and the Louvre, Paris, September 14, 2009–January 4, 2010
Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice
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Sacred, Earthy & Sublime
January 15, 2009
Mantegna, 1431–1506 an exhibition at the Musée du Louvre, Paris, September 26, 2008– January 5, 2009.
Giovanni Bellini an exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, September 30, 2008– January 11, 2009
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The Genius of George Inness
September 25, 2008
Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Artof Painting Softly
an exhibition at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute,Williamstown, Massachusetts,June 22–October 19, 2008.
George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné
by Michael Quick
George Inness: Writings and Reflections onArt and Philosophy
edited by Adrienne Baxter Bell
George Inness and the Science of Landscape
by Rachael Ziady DeLue
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The Magical Painting of Poussin
April 17, 2008
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
An exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 12–May 11, 2008.
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Recreating Picasso
December 20, 2007
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917–1932
by John Richardson
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Brush with Genius
April 26, 2007
Tintoretto
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Miguel Falomir
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The Heights of Pleasure
September 21, 2006
Giambologna: Gods and Heroes: Genesis and Fortune of a European Style in Sculpture Catalog of the exhibition edited by Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Dimitrios Zikos
Giambologna: Triumph of the Body Catalog of the exhibition edited by Wilfried Seipel
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The Pious Revolutionary
January 12, 2006
Fra Angelico
Catalog of the exhibition by Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, with contributions by Magnolia Scudieri, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Victor M. Schmidt, and Anneke de Vries
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The Homer of Painting
April 7, 2005
Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens
Catalog of the exhibition by Peter C. Sutton and Marjorie E. Wieseman with Nico van Hout
Peter Paul Rubens: The Drawings
Catalog of the exhibition by Anne-Marie Logan, with Michiel C. Plomp
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The Visionary
April 8, 2004
The Art of Parmigianino Catalog of the exhibition by David Franklin, with an essay by David Ekserdjian
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Capturing Character
July 17, 2003
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Sculptor of the Enlightenment
Catalog of the exhibition by Anne L. Poulet
Ein Versuch über die Gesichter Houdons by Willibald Sauerländer
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Leo’s ‘Last Supper’
November 7, 2002
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Leo’s Last Supper
July 18, 2002
Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper
Leo Steinberg
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Correction
October 18, 2001
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Bronze Beauties
July 19, 2001
Donatello e il suo tempo: Il bronzetto a Padova nel Quattrocento e nel Cinquecento Catalog of the exhibition edited by Davide Banzato and Gian Franco Martinoni
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Recasting the Ancients
July 25, 2012
The small but elegant show of Antico on view at The Frick Collection through Sunday comes closer than any earlier attempt to uncovering the enigma of this master’s art. Part of what makes Antico so mysterious for us is the sharp difference of his sensibility from our own. Like so many of the great sculptors of the early Renaissance, Antico was trained as a goldsmith, but unlike, say, Ghiberti or Verrocchio, this experience was fundamental for every aspect of his technique and aesthetic.
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The Unexpected Pleasures of Jan Gossart
January 8, 2011
Before it closes on January 17, I urge readers to rush over to the exhibition of Jan Gossart at the Metropolitan Museum to experience its unexpected pleasures.
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Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
May 1, 2012 – July 29, 2012
This small and exquisite show at the Frick Collection brings out the subtlety of Antico's sculptures, revealing them to be more than just de luxe items for delectation, but also extremely finely calibrated studies of poetic sensibility.