Bortolozzi teaches various courses from undergraduate to masters’ level. She has served as director of the Graduate Studies in Art History between 2022 and 2025.

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).

Current PhD students: Clara Strömberg, "Bara stjärnorna sätter en gräns för hans rykte". Ära, minne och praktik: adliga gravmonument under 1600-talets andra hälft ("Only the stars set limits to his fame.” Glory, Memory, and Practice: Swedish Funerary Monuments in the Second Half of the 17th Century)

Past PhD students: Christopher Landstedt, Fester, platser och visuell kultur i Stockholm under den gustavianska epoken (Festivals, Places, and Visual Culture in Stockholm During the Gustavian Era) 2023; Emma Kummerfeldt Quiroa, Making in Context: Reconsidering Anders Zorn’s Oil Painting Practice (2022); Anna Pichetto Fratin, Carlo Bassi (Torino 1772 - Turku 1840), architetto Italiano fra Svezia e Finlandia (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2018).

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 project 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'. 

Currently, she is 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

Bortolozzi was a postdoctoral fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome (2005-2006), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of Classical Studies at Rome (2014–2015), Guest curator at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm (2023) and 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 (2014). Her research has been supported by major grants from the Tercentenary Fund of the Swedish National Bank, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2008-2011; 2013-2014); Ragnar och Torsten Söderbergs Foundation (2011-2013); Marcus och Amalia Wallenbergs Minnesfond Foundation (2019-2023); and The Getty Fundation in Los Angeles (2023).

List of principal publications

Books

2020: A. Bortolozzi, Italian architectural drawings from the Cronstedt Collection, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Berlin: Hatje Cantz – Stockholm: Nationalmuseum) [319 p.]

The book offers the first comprehensive study of the Italian architectural drawings in the Cronstedt Collection in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. It features 181 drawings dating from approximately 1570 to 1630, with new proposals for identification and attribution based on recent scholarship and a detailed examination of the drawings' materiality. The book includes three introductory essays that discuss the provenance and history of the Cronstedt drawings, as well as comparisons with other drawing collections.

2014: A. Bortolozzi, Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso. Identità, magnificenza e culto delle reliquie nella Roma del primo Seicento (Rome: Campisano Editore) [215 p.].

The book investigates the genesis and construction of the early 17th-century church of Santi Ambrogio and Carlo al Corso, founded in Rome by the Lombard community. The research brings original contributions to the study of the relationship between architectural forms and cultural identity, the influence of Carlo Borromeo's "Instructions" on the shaping of liturgical spaces, and on the symbolic and political use of relics in Counter-Reformation Italy. A chapter of the book is also devoted to the five-years Milanese sojourn of the Roman architect Onorio Longhi and his artistic network.

Articles

2024: A. Bortolozzi, “Transparent Paper as a Medium of Copying and Design in the Early Modern Architectural Workshop”, RIHA Journal, ID: 0319 [26 p.]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/riha.2024.1.108191.

2024: A. Bortolozzi, “Il disegno nello studio di Carlo Maderno”, in S. Roberto, A. Roca De Amicis, S. Sturm (eds), Disegnare il Barocco. Tecniche, prassi e teorie nell'architettura nella Roma del Seicento (Rome: Artemide Edizioni), pp. 158–177.

2023: A. Bortolozzi, "Materiell estetik i Gunnar Asplunds Stockholms stadsbibliotek", in E. Manker, M. Snickare (eds), Materialitet: Teoretiska tillämpningar i konstvetenskap 4, Stockholm (Stockholm University Press), pp. 111–131. DOI: https://stockholmuniversitypress.se/chapters/e/10.16993/bch.f

2022: A. Bortolozzi, "Francesco da Volterra, Antiquity, and a Lost Libro dei disegni", Palladio. Rivista di Storia dell'Architettura e Restauro, N. 70, luglio/dicembre, pp. 23–42.

2021: A. Bortolozzi, "Giulio Romano e la materia del disegno di architettura", in P. Assman, S. L'Occaso, M. C. Loi, F. Moschini, A. Russo, M. Zurla (eds), Giulio Romano. Pittore, architetto, artista universale. Studi e ricerche, Proceedings of the International Conference, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, 14-15 October 2019 - Rome, Accademia di S. Luca, 16-18 October 2019 (Rome: Accademia Nazionale di San Luca), pp. 207–216.

2021: A. Bortolozzi, "«Chi vuol goder degli agi, soffra prima i disagi»: Vincenzo e Felice della Greca e l'arte di costruirsi un palazzo", in F. Lenzo (ed.), "Per avermi sognato un gran tesoro", Studi offerti a Giovanna Curcio (Rome: Campisano Editore), pp. 25–32.

2019: A. Bortolozzi, "Architects, Antiquarians, and the Rise of the Image in Renaissance Guidebooks to Ancient Rome", in A. Blennow, S. Fogelberg Rota (eds), in Rome and the Guidebook Tradition from the Middle Ages to the 20th century (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter), pp. 115–161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110615630-004

2016: A. Bortolozzi, "“Ordonnance and architectur bizarre”: Nicodemus Tessin and the Gallery at the Royal Palace of Turin", in L. Hinners, M. Olin, M. Rossholm Lagerlöf (eds), The gallery of Charles XI at the Royal Palace of Stockholm - in Perspective, Proceedings of the Interdisciplinary Symposium, Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien Stockholm (Stockholm: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, Handlingar, Historiska serien, 32), pp. 113–125.

2015: A. Bortolozzi, "Carlo Maderno e Francesco Borromini. Il progetto del palazzo in S. Lorenzo in Lucina per il principe Michele Peretti", Storia dell'Arte, n. s. 140, pp. 97–114.

2015: A. Bortolozzi, "Two Oxenstierna in Rome. Sightseeing, public performances and artistic education", in S. Norlander Eliasson, S. Fogelberg Rota (eds), The City of the Soul. The literary making of Rome, Proceedings of the International Conference, Swedish Institute of Classical Studies 9 -10 September 2010 (Stockholm: Suecoromana 8), pp. 31–41.

2015: A. Bortolozzi, "Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso: una chiesa lombarda per un santo lombardo a Roma", in A. Koller, S. Kubersky-Piredda (eds), Identità e rappresentazione: Le chiese nazionali a Roma, 1450-1650 (Rome: Campisano Editore), pp. 407–428.

2012: A. Bortolozzi, "Giovan Battista Ricci e Benedetto Giustiniani nel portico di S. Pietro in Vaticano", in A. Brodini and G. Curcio (eds), Porre un limite all'infinito errore. Studi di storia dell’architettura dedicati a Christof Thoenes (Rome: Campisano Editore), pp. 149–160.

2011: A. Bortolozzi, "Recovered memory: The exhibition of the remains of old St. Peter's in the Vatican Grottos", Konsthistorisk tidskrift / Journal of Art History, vol. 80, n. 2, pp. 90–107.

2011: A. Bortolozzi, "Two drawings by Giovan Battista Ricci da Novara for the decoration of the portico of new St Peter's", The Burlington Magazine, vol CLIII, no. 1236, March, pp. 163–167.

2010: A. Bortolozzi, "La biblioteca di Carl Johan Cronstedt (1709-1777), architetto reale di Svezia", in Giovana Curcio, Marco Rosario Nobile, Aurora Scotti Tosini (eds), I libri e l'ingegno. Studi sulla biblioteca dell'architetto (XV-XX sec.) (Palermo: Edizioni Caracol), pp. 177–184.

2009/2010: A. Bortolozzi, ”Il completamento del nuovo S. Pietro sotto il pontificato di Paolo V: disegni e dibattiti 1605-1613, Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana, 39, pp. 281–328.

2009: A. Bortolozzi, "Three unknown drawings by Carlo Maderno’s workshop in the Cronstedt Collection", Art Bulletin of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 15, pp. 95–100.

2007: A. Bortolozzi, "Onorio Longhi e gli anni dell’esilio (1606-1611): le esperienze di un architetto romano nella Lombardia federiciana", Arte Lombarda 151, 3, pp. 42–59.

1997: Bortolozzi, “Indagini sull’insediamento ducale veneziano fino al termine del XII secolo”, Venezia Arti, XI, pp. 5–18.

Exhibitions

2023: A. Bortolozzi, “Transparent designs: Copies and tracings in 18th-century architectural practice”, Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 15 May. Digital exhibition and video produced with the support of The Getty Foundation through The Paper Project Initiative: https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/explore-art-and-design/more-to-discover/transparent-design-copies-and-tracings.