Peter Windows

Title

Dr

Institution

Birmingham City University

Current Research

The early history of collecting drawings, from Oliviero Forzetta to Gabriele Vendramin (book proposal).
The holograph inventories of Marino Grimani (c. 1488-1546): early insights into the collecting of drawings (article).
The drawings of Bernardino da Parenzo: a catalogue raisonné (book/articles).
Notes on little-known and unknown draughtsmen in northern Italy in the early Renaissance (article).

Recent Publications

‘Gabriele Vendramin’s ‘disegni divini’: The anatomy of an early collection of drawings’, Journal of the History of Collections, (2014): 1-19; with online Appendix.
‘An Important, Unpublished drawing by Bernardo Parentino’, Master Drawings (2017): 291-310.
‘The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings’, Master Drawings (2018): 443-462.
- with Evelyn Karet, ‘The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings’, ‘Additional Drawings’, ‘Summary of Findings’, in Evelyn Karet with contributions by Peter Windows and Alessandra Zamperini, The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT, 2014), pp. 1-33, pp. 227-9 and 231-71.