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Sister WendyBeckett is a native of South Africa who now lives in England and is a member of the generation born between the two world wars.
WendyBeckett felt a call to religious life as a teenager.
Sister Wendy was attending an art exhibit in Norfolk in the late 1980s when a television producer who was in the gallery on another assignment overheard her talking with her friend about a painting.
Sister Wendy is back with this expanded version of her popular book, which features more than 450 masterpieces, 150 oversized details from key paintings, and 250+ photos, drawings, and documents that place paintings in their historical context.
Sister Wendy, whose public television series and books have introduced millions to the pleasures of art, combines her interest in the Muses of classical mythology with her appreciation for fine porcelain--in a lovely little paean to the patron goddesses of the arts.
Sister WendyBeckett is a British nun and self-taught art critic whose books and television art tours have made her internationally renowned and beloved.
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