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2023
Book chapter
“A Crown of Everlasting Glory”: The Afterlife of Maria Clementina Sobieska in Material and Visual Culture
Maria Clementina Sobieska was the last widely recognised Stuart queen, albeit in exile, and mother to the final generation of the Stuart dynasty. Examining the material and visual culture surrounding her funeral and afterlife, this chapter reinstates Clementina in Jacobite and Stuart history. It also considers the papal role in...Vullinghs, Georgia
Jacobites, visual culture, material culture, Royal funerals, Queenship, and Stuarts
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2024
Book chapter
Tracing royal Stewart jewels in the archives
Imagine the impact of Mary Queen of Scots walking into the room. At nearly six feet tall, and dressed into the finest jewels, fashion and fabrics available, she will have impressed. That, after all, was the intended effect: Mary used the way she appeared to command respect, denote her regal...Groundwater, Anna
Renaissance , material culture , Scottish history , jewellery history , Mary Queen of Scots , art history, objects, and Stuarts
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2024
Book chapter
Foreword
At National Museums Scotland we have a small but stellar collection of Renaissance jewellery associated with Scotland in the sixteenth century. Highlights of this collection include the pearl- encrusted gold locket and fillgree bead necklace of the Penicuk Jewels, associated with Mary, Queen of Scots, and the finely enamelled Fettercairn...Alberti, S J M M
Scottish history, jewellery history, Stuarts, and Renaissance
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2024
Book chapter
Introduction: decoding jewels in Renaissance Scotland
The classic Roman god Mercury strides purposefully from left to right across a gold locket, but his specific intention is not immediately clear (fig.1). However, to the sixteenth-century maker, buyer and recipient of this locket, now known as the Fettercairn jewel, the significance of Mercury's journey will have been understood....Groundwater, Anna
Renaissance , Mary Queen of Scots, material culture , Scottish history , jewellery history , Stuarts, art history, and objects
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2024
Book
Decoding the jewels: Renaissance jewellery in Scotland
For the first time, National Museums Scotland’s important collection of Renaissance jewellery from Scotland is considered together alongside significant jewels from the Royal Collection and elsewhere. The book was inspired by the acquisition by NMS of the extraordinary Fettercairn Jewel: the fine iconography of this exquisitely enamelled locket held coded...Groundwater, Anna
Scottish history, Mary Queen of Scots, objects, jewellery history, Stuarts, Renaissance, material culture, and art history
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2021
Journal article
Fit for a Queen: The Material and Visual Culture of Maria Clementina Sobieska, Jacobite Queen in Exile
Tracing its manifestation across three phases in her biography — marriage, separation and funeral — this article considers the image of Maria Clementina Sobieska (1702–35). Examining the objects and portraits which surrounded Clementina’s life and death offers a new historiography for the Jacobite queen in exile. It reinstates her place...Vullinghs, Georgia
queenship, Jacobites, Stuarts, royal image, and material culture