Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia by Maderno Photograph by Weston Westmoreland

Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia by Maderno

by Weston Westmoreland

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Title

Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia by Maderno

Artist

Weston Westmoreland

Medium

Photograph - Photograph

Description

Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, by Stefano Maderno, Rome.

Sculpture of St. Cecilia (1600) in the Church after her name in Trastevere, Rome. Created by the late-Renaissance sculptor Stefano Maderno, there is a marble slab by the statue with the author's sworn statement that he recorded the body as he saw it when the tomb was opened in 1599.

The sculpture depicts the three axe strokes described in the 5th-century account of her martyrdom. It also is meant to underscore the incorruptibility of her cadaver (an attribute of some saints), which miraculously still had congealed blood after centuries. This statue could be considered as proto-Baroque, since it depicts no idealized moment, but a naturalistic representation of a dead or dying saint. It precedes by decades the similar high-Baroque sculptures of Bernini (for example, his Beata Ludovica Albertoni).

Saint Cecilia is the patroness of musicians and one of the most famous of the Roman martyrs. The details of her story appear to be fictional but her existence and martyrdom are considered a historical fact. She is said to have been beheaded. Cecilia was buried at the Catacombs of St. Callistus, and then transferred to the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere. In 1599, her body was found still incorrupt, seeming to be asleep.

An early Roman Christian church, Santa Cecilia, was founded in the fourth century in the Trastevere section of Rome, reputedly on the site of the house in which she lived. A number of musical compositions are dedicated to her, and her feast day, November 22, became the occasion for concerts and musical festivals.

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