Focus on this artwork and explain the abstract.
St. Cecilia is a Baroque sculpture by Stefano Maderno and commissioned by Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfrondrato in the church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Rome. Stefano Maderno was a famous Italian sculptor from the early 1600s best known for his statues of saints. St. Cecilia was the Roman saint of music who was executed for baptizing her fellow Romans and as such became a martyr for Christianity.  The statue was part of a renovation done to the St. Cecilia Basilica in Trastevere, Rome, which displays the saint lying on her side with her dress tucked between her knees in a Baroque art style as part of an exhibit which also displays a new tomb of St. Cecilia's actual body. The body was moved during Pope Paschal I's campaign to move Christian saints' bodies inside the walls of Rome. The sculpture exists as a Christian symbol of overcoming hatred and prosecution.
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