Bortolozzi teaches various courses from undergraduate to masters’ level. She is director of the Graduate Studies in Art History since 2022.

In 2017, Bortolozzi developed a pedagogical project aimed at enhancing students’ observational skills and independent learning through physical engagement with art objects (in collaboration with the senior lecturer Magdalena Holdar and Stockholm University Centre for the Advancement of University Teaching, Ceul): https://www.su.se/polopoly_fs/1.384053.1525079609!/menu/standard/file/Pedamb_rapport_2017_2.pdf

Current PhD students: Clara Strömberg, "Bara stjärnorna sätter en gräns för hans rykte". Ära, minne och praktik: adliga gravmonument under 1600-talets andra hälft.

Past PhD students: Christopher Landstedt, 

Fester, platser och visuell kultur i Stockholm under den gustavianska epoken

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Emma Kummerfeldt Quiroa, Making in Context: Reconsidering Anders Zorn’s Oil Painting Practice; 

Bortolozzi published on the completion of New St. Peter's under the pontificate of Paul V and the memory of the Constantinian Basilica, the Vatican Grottos, the transfer of architectural knowledge between Italy and Sweden in the 17th century, Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Renaissance guidebooks to ancient Rome; the drawing practice of Giulio Romano and Carlo Maderno.

As a research fellow and guest curator at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Bortolozzi conducted extensive research on the museum’s collections of architectural drawings and published a comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt Collection (Hatje Cantz, Berlin - Stockholm 2020). Between 2019 and 2023, she researched a corpus of over 600 drawings on transparent paper (in Swedish called kalker after the French calque) made between c.1720 and 1780 in the studios of the Swedish architects – and successive superintendents of the public works – Carl Hårleman (1700–1753) and Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709–1777). The aim of the project was to shed light on the use of transparent paper as a copying and design medium in architectural practice before the advent of machine-made tracing paper. By charting the Nationalmuseum's tracings the project aligned with recent research efforts addressing materiality in the study of artistic practices.

Bortolozzi’s investigation into the Nationalmuseum's tracings materialised in the digital exhibition Transparent designs: Copies and tracings in 18th-century architectural practice produced with support from the Getty Foundation through The Paper Project Initiative. The exhibition, launched on the Nationalmuseum's website in May 2023 (available in both English and Swedish), features a selection of more than 40 architectural tracings and drawings: www.nationalmuseum.se/en/transparent-design-copies-and-tracings A specially produced video shows how transparent paper was made in the early modern period, following recipes from art and architectural treatises. From 2024 there is an article entitled "Transparent Paper as a Medium of Copying and Design in the Early Modern Architectural Workshop" based on tracings from the 16th to the 18th century held in various European collections: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/rihajournal/article/view/108191.

Bortolozzi interests have recently turned to the Nordic Classicism of the 1920th. In 2023 she contributed to an edited volume on Materiality with a study of Gunnar Asplund's Stockholm City Library. Her analysis focused on the genesis and symbolism of on the linoleum floor of the central book hall, the so-called rotunda, interpreted through the lens of 'material aesthetics'. 

She is currently researching

19th and early 20th century plate books on Egyptian, Greek, and Roman architecture and decoration by authors such as Luigi Canina, and Hector d'Espouy, and Johann von Mauch once kept in Sigurd Lewerentz’s library. The aim is to explore the relationship between these visual sources and the classically inspired architecture designed and built by the architect.

Fellowships and grants

Anna Bortolozzi was a postdoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome (2005-2006). Her research has been supported by the Tercentenary Fund of the Swedish National Bank (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond); Ragnar och Torsten Söderbergs stiftelse; Stiftelsen Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond; and The Getty Fundation. Between 2013 and 2014 she participated in the interdisciplinary project Topos and Topography. Rome and the birth of the guidebook genre (funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) as a research fellow at the Swedish Institute for Classical Studies in Rome. In 2024 Bortolozzi was Visiting Senior Scholar at the Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, within the Faculty of History of Art at the University of Cambridge (UK).