Jan e Marysieńka. Riflessioni e aggiornamenti sulle memorie di Jan III Sobieski e Maria Casimira nei Musei Capitolini a Roma
Author(s)
Francesca Ceci
Date Issued
2019
Type
article
Volume
2
Issue
1
Start Page
49
End Page
60
Journal
Abstract
This paper presents two marble epigraphs preserved at the Capitoline Museums of Rome. Relating to King Jan III Sobieski and his wife Maria Casimira Luisa de la Grange d’Arquien, mostly unpublished. In the first – dedicated by the Senate to Innocent XI to commemorate the victory of Vienna on 12 September 1683 – we find the engraved names of the protagonists of this famous historical event.
In the second – surmounted by a precious marble low-relief bust of the widowed Queen Maria Casimira – we can learn of her merits, and specifically her influence on her husband, urging him to act on the occasion of the battle of Vienna in 1683, but also the later coming to Rome driven by pietas to celebrate the 1700 Jubilee.
It is thanks to the archival research conducted by Jennifer Montagu that we came to know the sculptor of the queen’s portrait Lorenzo Ottoni, a well-established and fruitful sculptor of the time.
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