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Maria Clementina Sobieska and the Ursulines of Via Vittoria in Rome
The arrival of Clementina in Rome was eagerly awaited. Pope Clement XI ordered rooms to be prepared for her in the Ursuline convent on Via Vittoria, built in 1688 thanks to the Duchess of Modena and her daughter Maria, the mother of James III Stuart.
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The Sobieskis and Stuarts – the Splendour and Spectre of the Crown
The exhibition is the first in Poland to trace a common thread in the modern history of two distant countries: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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Portrait of King Jan III surrounded by his family, unknown painter from the circle of the court of Jan III, after 1693
It is a work of small size, but with a strongly representative character exposing the dynastic plans of the Sobieski family, which were implemented with great intensity, especially in the years following the 1683 victory of the Vienna battle.
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The Sobieskis and Stuarts. Castrum doloris of Clementina Sobieska in the Basilica dei Santi XII Apostoli in Rome, Baldassare Gabbuggiani, 1736
In 1736, Giovanni Maria Salvioni’s publishing house in Rome released a bilingual print entitled "Parentalia Mariae Clementinae," with detailed description of the grand funeral ceremonies organised in Rome.
