Sister Wendy's Nativity looks anew at the Christmas story and invites us to consider the true significance of Christ's life. Her personal selection of over 40 beautiful paintings from manuscripts held by the Vatican and Italian State Libraries (many seen here for the first time) illustrate stories that are familiar to us all, yet whose significance is so often elusive. 
 Sister Wendy begins the story by looking at the events that proceeded the birth of Christ--the Creation, the Garden of Eden, the Annunciation, the Visitation leading us to the Nativity story itself--the birth in the stable, the shepherds, the magi. The story continues with much-loved episodes from Christ's time on earth--the Feeding of the five thousand, Peter walking on the water. The last Supper. Finally, she reflects upon the meaning of the crucifixion, resurrection and Christ's eventual ascension into heaven to embrace eternal life. 
 The charming, provocative and often humorous illustrations in this book are the testament of artists who dedicated their lives to producing paintings in praise of God. Sister Wendy blends her artistic knowledge with her spiritual insight in order to help us understand the meaning contained for all of us in their exquisite pictures.

Sister Wendy's Nativity

Arts & Photography

BECKETT, WENDY

History & Criticism

Harper

Sister Wendy Beckett has been dubbed a "pop star" by the New York Times and "a phenomenon" by the Washington Post. She is certainly one of the world's best-known and best-loved art critics, familiar to millions from her wildly popular art series on PBS.
In Sister Wendy's American Collection, she visits six of America's most prestigious museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts), the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth, Texas), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In each, Sister Wendy chooses a wide variety of artpaintings, sculpture, porcelain figures-and draws attention to the small details of the work, revealing hidden meanings and symbolism. She relates the background of the artist and explains the techniques and the histories behind each work in a straightforward language that speaks to all with humor and insight.
More than 250 full-color illustrations illuminate Sister Wendy's text. Sister Wendy's American Collection is a wonderful tour of six great American museums -- it is also the equivalent of taking a personal tour with Sister Wendy, studying and enjoying her favorite pieces of art, chosen from across the whole breadth of history to the present. It is a fascinating journey, one that can be taken again and again. Sister Wendy's American Collection is soon to be a PBS miniseries.

Sister Wendy's American Collection

Toby Eady, Associates

A lavishly illustrated volume explores the images of saints in thirty-one of history's most significant works of art, providing accompanying meditations that consider such topics as spiritual love and how the works can promote faith.

The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art Through the Centuries

Christian Books & Bibles

Catholicism

HarperOne

Britain's delightful television-star nun offers arresting insights into the soul of modern art--featuring color images of works by such artists as Matisse, Hopper, and Rivera.

The Gaze of Love: Meditations on Art and Spiritual Transformation

Harper-San Francisco

The Gaze of Love: Meditations on Art

Religion & Spirituality

Marshall Pickering

The chapel of King's College, Cambridge, is one of England's greatest architectural treasures, and is visited by about two million people every year. It contains the country's finest collection of 16th-century stained glass, and one of the best in Europe, but from ground level much of the glass is rendered almost invisible by distance and the windows' heavy leading. In this guide, the windows are arranged in pairs which relate Old Testament scenes to events of Holy Week, drawing comparisons which can seem surprising to the modern mind and which give spiritual insights. Parallels are drawn between Jonah's escape from the whale and Christ's resurrection, between the fall of manna and the Last Supper, and between the drunken, shamed Noah and Jesus as he appeared before Herod.

Pains of Glass: The Story of the Passion from King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Pattison, George

Bbc Pubns

" Art and the Sacred' is an important contribution to contemporary art critisism, a glorious celebration of the transforming power of art, and a prayerful meditation on the presence of the divine in our everyday lives".book flap

Art and the Sacred

RH Canada UK Dist

Through more than 450 masterpieces, the author unfolds the story of 800 years of Western painting from Giotto, the Renaissance and Impressionism, to Pop Art and the present day. Sister Wendy scrutinizes in depth 50 of the world's most famous paintings, among them Picasso's "The Nude Woman", Monet's "The Waterlily Pond", and Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus". Using enlarged details, she reveals hidden meanings, explains content, and gives us a clearer understanding of the influences that inspired the artists.

The Story of Painting

DK Pub.

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

Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd.

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

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