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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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The Sobieskis and Stuarts. Watch, Isaac Duhamel, 1718
William Mosman’s portrait ostentatiously displays a gold watch by Queen Clementina’s right hand.
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The Sobieskis and Stuarts. Filippo d’Azon, “Parentalia In Anniversario Funere Mariæ Clementinæ...”, 1736
In 1736, on the first anniversary of the queen’s funeral, a ceremony was held in Rome, at the Collegium Urbanum, a seminary which trained missionaries, operated by the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith.
