Butterfield has published articles and books on a wide range of topics, from ancient to modern. His work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic, as well as many scholarly journals. His book The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio won the prestigious Mitchell Prize for an outstanding contribution to the study of the visual arts. The following is a selection of his books.
The Jacques Koerfer Collection
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence
The Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz
Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting
Body and Soul
Bernini: The Modello for the Fountain of the Moor
Donatello - A Spiritello Rediscovered
Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Bust of the Savior
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and the Renaissance in Florence
One of the Most Beautiful Things: A Rediscovered Masterpiece by Antonio Corradini
Vittoria and Tiepolo: The Giulio Contarini Bust and the Drawings It Inspired
Bernini: The Last Portrait Bust
Italian Sculpture from the Gothic to the Baroque
Beauty Bound and Power Unleashed: Jacobus Agnesius and the Quest for Expression in Baroque Ivory Sculpture
Early Renaissance Reliefs
Masterpieces of Renaissance Art, Eight Rediscoveries
The Sculptures of Andrea del Verrocchio
Italian Renaissance Sculpture
Masterpieces of Renaissance Sculpture
Verrocchio's Christ and Saint Thomas: A Masterpiece of Sculpture from Renaissance Florence
The Gates of Paradise