Influencing or Influenced Works
- Stefano Maderno's sculpture of St Cecilia in namesake church (1600).
- Melchiorre Caffà's Santa Rose of Lima (1665) and his Assumption of St Catherine.
- Francisco Aprile and Ercole Ferrata's Sant'Anastasia in her namesake church in Rome.
- The most internationally successful Czech underground group the Ecstasy of Saint Theresa named themselves after the sculpture.
- Angels and Demons, the novel by Dan Brown which lists the sculpture as the third "altar of science" of the fictionalized Illuminati.
- The sculpture is the subject of the song "The Lie" from the Peter Hammill album The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage. Here is a little essay about the song, on a French musical site.
- Numerous references to the sculpture, including one character's obsession, are made in Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
- Street artist Banksy used the image of Saint Theresa in one of his works, though he removed the angelic figure and added a fast food meal.
- The sculpture and its image are frequently referred to in the novel Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese.
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