In this book, Sister Wendy chooses some of her favourite pieces of art from six US museums of her choice. These are the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art. The pictures reproduced here show the breadth of Sister Wendy's appreciation. Her selection is not limited by genre - she looks at some of the greatest classical paintings, by Velasquez, Goya, Rubens, Tiepolo or Renoir, but also at modern and more unusual artefacts and sculptures from all over the world, such as a page from the Koran, or a Chinese tombstone. The magnificent illustrations reproduce many details of the main pieces. In her inimitable style, Sister Wendy writes a very personal response to the art, not necessarily from a religious point of view, but simply from that of a world-renowned art historian.

SISTER WENDY'S AMERICAN COLLECTION.

Arts & Photography

Sister Wendy Beckett

History & Criticism

NY: HarperCollins

This series of miniature art books by Sister Wendy Beckett is based around the universal themes of love, joy, silence and peace. Each one contains 20 paintings by famous artists, selected for their spiritual beauty. Every painting is accompanied by inspirational text, highlighting the religious power or sacred meaning within each work. The Gothic and Renaissance masters of sacred painting, such as Fra Angelico Raphael, and Giotto are all represented as well as more modern and contemporary painters, whose work often has a powerful religious message.

Joy (Meditations on)

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

This series of miniature art books by Sister Wendy Beckett is based around the universal themes of love, joy, silence and peace. Each one contains 20 paintings by famous artists, selected for their spiritual beauty. Every painting is accompanied by inspirational text, highlighting the religious power or sacred meaning within each work. The Gothic and Renaissance masters of sacred painting, such as Fra Angelico Raphael, and Giotto are all represented as well as more modern and contemporary painters, whose work often has a powerful religious message.

Silence (Meditations on)

Dorling, Kindersley

This anthology brings together manuscript pages illustrating the lives of more than 40 saints. The images have been selected from the treasures of the Italian State Librarian and Sister Wendy's text chronicles the lives of each saint, their feast days and the subjects of their patronage.

Sister Wendy's Book of Saints

History

An unsurpassed anthology of Western Art. 1,000 paintings annotated and reproduced in authentic color. 500 of the world's finest artists. Insights into the great works of art. Summaries the important art movements in history.

Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces

Dorling Kindersley H/B

Contains over 400 masterpieces of Western painting from the very beginnings of art to the present day. The book includes nearly 200 close-ups to allow the reader to gain knowledge of each work and artist and Sister Wendy Beckett shares her love of painting.

New Story of Painting

Sister Wendy's boundless enthusiasm for art is well known from her TV series and art books. But the most important part of her life is her relationship with God. In this book in which art reproductions are accompanied by 12 original prayers, she shares her belief that art can be a way of talking and listening to God. Young and old alike should find much to inspire them spiritually.

A Child's Book of Prayer in Art

Study & Teaching

Meditations On Joy

DOUBLEDAY

Spiritual Letters

Bloomsbury Publishing

This is a powerful devotional study of all existing pre-Iconoclastic icons that are still readable. In "Encounters with God Sister", Wendy Beckett traveled to remote churches and monasteries to view the earliest icons of Mary. In "Real Presence", she resumes this journey to see additional early icons of Jesus and the saints - icons that are among the few to survive the wholesale destruction of icons in the early eighth century. In contrast with the familiar and magnificent icons of later history, these early icons have a haunting simplicity and unfamiliar spiritual power. They come to us from a time closer to that of Christ, when faith was still alive with wonder and possibilities, and these images, a vehicle for prayer, can truly convey his real presence. Sister Wendy journeys to the heart of the great treasure-house of pre-Iconoclastic icons at Mt. Sinai to celebrate its unique historical and spiritual value, and to reveal the spirituality and devotional practices of our ancestors. Prayerful and heartfelt, "Real Presence" offers everyone 'a taste of the spiritual happiness that is there for the asking, for the seeking, for attention'.

Real Presence: Sister Wendy on the Earliest Icons

Continuum Intl Publishing Grp

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