A Polish queen in Baroque Rome. Maria Casimira and the Royal family Sobieski tell each other in an exhibition – Rome – Arte.it

Roma – When, in the night between March 23 and 24, 1699, Queen Maria Casimira Sobieska Rome reached, welcomed by a city in the celebration, the memory of her wife, King Giovanni (Jan) III Sobieski van Polen, was already impressed in the heart of the Paus and the Aristocracy, and on Epigahs and work.
Only sixteen years earlier, on September 12, 1683, the “Catholic” King in Vienna was the much feared Ottoman rise. The queen, unable to guarantee the throne of the family, like a Poles an elective monarchy, for reasons of political opportunities that preferred to leave the country and move to Rome with a follow -up to around 200 people between members of the royal family and court staff.
In the city, where the fame of the partner was still alive, the jubilee of the 1700s mentioned by Innocent XII and concluded under the pontificate of Clement XI. He stayed in the city for almost 15 years and first lived in Palazzo Odescalchi, in Piazza Santi Apostoli, and then in Palazzo Zuccari, in Piazza Trinità dei Monti, where they promote refined literary and musical events. Only in 1714 did he decide to go to Blois where he died two years later.
To fulfill this thriving Roman season, from 11 June to 21 September will be an exhibition that returns to visitors an extraordinary intersection of those years, a heritage of memories that withdraw the fascinating presence of the Sobieski court in Baroque Rome.
The Capitolinemusea, in theaters on the third floor of Palazzo Caffarelli, organize the exhibition A Polish queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in RomeThe first appointment with “Campidoglio Crocevia di Culture”, a new series of exhibitions compiled by the Capitoline Superintendency, dedicated to characters, peoples and international events that saw the Capitol header player.

A Polish queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in Rome, Set -Up | Courtesy Zetema

So after more than 300 years, Once again on the occasion of a jubilee, Maria Casimira “Returns to Rome” As the protagonist of the exhibition that tells the polish family of the sobieski and their relationship with They, Culture forointmental, Culture forointmental, Culture forointment, Culture forointment, Culture forointment, Superintency for Cultural Heritage, With the Patronage of the Embassy of Poland, or the Polish Institute of Rome and the Polish Academy Rome.
Made in collaboration with the University of Warsaw and her chairman of Archeology, published by Francesca Ceci, Jerzy Miziołek with Francesca de Caprio, the exhibition organized by Zestema Progetto Cultura, is a small jewel, a refined piece of painted with an equally fascinating setting.
The selection, which includes around sixty works, some exposed for the first time, includes paintings, prints, volumes, sculptures, epigraphics and also a USSARA Armor -Buste.
Traveling along the five sections, the public crosses a series of works that witnesses to the Roman presence of Maria Casimira and her family, with interesting prints that are also devoted to the lush Roman funeral celebrations in honor of John III and the son Alessandro. The area characterized by the safe with the fresco of the chapel made by Maria Casimira in Palazzetto Zuccari, with the pigeon of the Holy Spirit and the monograms crowned with the queen, reproduced.
We also know that Maria Casimira was the first woman to be counted to the members of Arcadia. The modern watercolors of the Museum of Rome also noted that portray the famous Palazzetto Zuccari with his porch crowned by the Wapen van Polen.

Another queen of the Sobieski family lived and died in Rome: it is the cousin Maria Clementina who married the Catholic pretender to the throne of England Giacomo III Stuart. The couple spent the Roman exile protected by the popes and actively participated in Roman cultural life. And here is the queen without a kingdom in the center of important paintings, prints and a beautiful bronze -dependent bust that the young sovereign reflects in all its beauty.

A Polish queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in Rome, Set -Up | Courtesy Zetema

Sufficient space is devoted to the hypothesis of John III, a victorious hero and triumphing of the epic battle for Vienna, through works of the Museum of Rome, the University of Warsaw and the Royal Castle of Warsaw. The route affects two other rooms from the Capitolinemusea. In the room called Castellani III, always in Palazzo Caffarelli, the marble epigraaf with the portrait of Regina Maria Casimira, performed by the sculptor Lorenzo Otoni, is exhibited. He celebrates his official reception in the Capitol on December 2, 1700. In addition to this, the epigrave was dedicated to Queen Cristina van Zweden in 1656, whose visit to the Capitol served as a ceremonial model for that intended for the Polish widow Queen.
Palazzo Nuovo, at the beginning of the gallery, is instead of a marble table dedicated by the Roman Senate to Pope Innocent XI in the aftermath of the victory of Vienna from 1683, who never distributed him as the architect of the Liga that led to the liberation of the Austrian city of Never.

In addition to the welcome of this precious selection of works, some exhibited for the first time, the exhibition squeezed the eye on different traces in the area, so much so that compiling a real route. These are the monumental testimonies left by the Sobieski family in Rome, preserved in churches, buildings and museums. They vary from the Capitolinemusea to the Cappuccini Church in Via Veneto – in which the funeral monument of Prince Alessandro Sobieski is housed – from the Vatican Basilica – where the Cenotafio is dedicated to Maria Clementina Sobieska – to the Basulara of the SS. Apostles where the heart rests in a marble urn. Furthermore, in The Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli and the Martyrs in Piazza della Repubblica, Two Metal Plates that recall the battle of Vienna are placed in The Monumental Meridiana Clementina, While the Church of San Luigi or the Funerary, The Funerary The Funerary, The Funerary’s The Funerary’s The Funerary, The Funerary’s The Funerary, The Funerary’s The Funerary’s The Fulli De la Grange d’Arquien.

A Polish queen in the Capitol: Maria Casimira and the Sobieski Royal Family in Rome, Set -Up | Courtesy Zetema

The project also wants to be a chance to improve the many Roman testimonies of the Royal family of Sobieski that have been stored in the collections of the Capitoline’s main inspection. This material, which includes some valuable prints of the Museum of Rome and important letters of the Capitoline Historical Archive, forms the support point of the exhibition, to which various loans from Rome and beyond are supported. Under this, the four portraits from the hospice of the church of San Stanislao dei Polacchi, with the queen of Poland, Ludovica Maria Gonzaga Nevers. She was the protector of the young Pupilla Maria Casimira, who arrived at the Polish court with her as a child and then became Sobieski next to Giovanni III.
Of the royal couple, the exhibition shows paintings that have been specially restored by the National Institute of the Polish cultural heritage abroad and also kept in San Stanislao. The same institution is responsible for the restoration of the two bronzed limestone booms that the queen displayed without Kingdom of Maria Clementina Sobieska Stuart and Pope Clement XII, owned by the province of Italy Orsoline Union Romana, never exhibited before.
Another Roman loan is the airy painter of the painter John Newbott with a panorama of the Piazza Trinità dei Monti Urbe, where the portico moved to Palazzo Zuccari by Queen Maria Casimira, now the chair of the Hertziana library, owner of the painting. The public will also be able to admire the precious bust of Armsaro’s armor of the famous Polish cavalry who participated in the Battle of Vienna of 12 September 1683, preserved in the Dom Polska, named after Johannes Paulus II. A small drawing on loan from the Staatsbibliotheek of the National Monument or Grottaferrata portrays lunch in honor of Queen Maria Casimira who just arrived in Rome in 1699. Among the loans arrived in Rome from Poland from Poland with the University of Warsaw and the chair of archeology are a large press and a text relating to Giovanni, collections of the University Library, Paintings from the Royal Castle of Warsaw: a painting of Maria Clementina Sobieska and the Runningeska and the Runningka and the Opuniska Liberata, overcome by a putto with a banner in Italian, praised the king.

A rich program of collanding events organized with the support of the Embassy of Poland, the Polish Institute of Rome and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Rome accompanies the exhibition.