John Pinto

John Pinto (born February 28, 1948) is an architectural historian specializing in Renaissance and Baroque Rome. He is the Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of Art and Archaeology, Emeritus at Princeton University.

Education Pinto received his B.A. (1970) and Ph.D. (1976) from Harvard University.

Career Pinto won the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome in 1973. He received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians in 1996.

Pinto taught at Smith College from 1976 to 1988, and has been at Princeton since then.

Honors Fellow (Rome Prize) of the American Academy in Rome Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 1984 Dumbarton Oaks Bibliotheca Hertziana John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Books

Speaking Ruins: Piranesi, Architects, and Antiquity in Eighteenth-Century Rome, University of Michigan, 2012 with W. Bruce Lundberg, Steps off the Beaten Path: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Rome and Its Environs, Charta, 2007 with Elisabeth Kieven, Pietro Bracci and Eighteenth-Century Rome: Drawings for Architecture and Sculpture in the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Other Collections, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. with William L. MacDonald, Hadrian’s Villa and Its Legacy, Yale, 1995 The Trevi Fountain, Yale, 1986.