“A Crown of Everlasting Glory”: The Afterlife of Maria Clementina Sobieska in Material and Visual Culture
Resource type
Book chapter
Creator (person)
Vullinghs, Georgia
Date published
2023
Abstract
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 Clementina’s posthumous image-making, beyond the context of their support for the Stuarts. The research draws on three key written sources for the queen’s funeral in Rome, as well as extant visual representations of the ceremony, to examine her material commemoration, from the monumental to the miniature.
Series name
Queenship and Power
Book title
Later Stuart Queens, 1600-1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage
Editor
Gregory, Eilish
Questier, Michael C
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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In Copyright