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Sister Wendy in Venice: Bellini, Titian and Giorgione. eucalyptuspauciflora | August 31, 2010 Sister Wendy revels in the Renaissance. She visits La Serenissima, Venice in Italy, to enjoy works by …More
Sister Wendy in Venice: Bellini, Titian and Giorgione.

eucalyptuspauciflora | August 31, 2010
Sister Wendy revels in the Renaissance. She visits La Serenissima, Venice in Italy, to enjoy works by Bellini, Titian and Giorgione. These are the details of the works included:

Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (The National Gallery London)

Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian (The National Gallery London)
The Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, also known as Castelfranco Madonna, Giorgione ( La Pala of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy)
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Sister Wendy Beckett (born 25 February 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became a celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC.
Biography
She was born in South Africa and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. She became a nun in 1946 in the order of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She …More
Sister Wendy Beckett (born 25 February 1930) is a South African-born British art expert, consecrated virgin and contemplative hermit who became a celebrity during the 1990s, presenting a series of acclaimed art history documentaries for the BBC.
Biography
She was born in South Africa and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland. She became a nun in 1946 in the order of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. She was sent to England to begin her novitiate and studied at St Anne's College at Oxford, where she was awarded a first class (with distinction) degree in English literature. [1] Outside her academic work, she lived in a convent that maintained a strict code of silence.
After attending a teacher training college in Liverpool and earning a teaching diploma in 1954, she returned to South Africa to teach at Notre Dame Convent a school for girls in Constantia, Cape Town, where she taught English and Latin. Later, when the Convent closed its doors in 1967, she moved to Johannesburg where she lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand. Health problems in 1970 forced her to abandon teaching and return to England to live in the grounds of a Carmelite monastery. She spent many years translating Medieval Latin scripts before deciding to pursue her favourite subject of art in 1980.
Obtaining papal permission for her to become a consecrated virgin in 1970, Sister Wendy's order arranged for her to live under the protection of the Carmelite nuns at their monastery at Quidenham, Norfolk, in the east of England. She leads a contemplative lifestyle, and currently lives in a caravan on the grounds. Besides receiving the Carmelite prioress and a nun who brings her provisions, she dedicates her life solely to monastic solitude and prayer, but allows herself two hours of work per day.
Sister Wendy Contemplates Saint Paul in Art was published by St Pauls, London 2008 to celebrate the Year of Saint Paul. In May, 2009 Encounters with God: In Quest of the Ancient Icons of Mary was published, which follows Sister Wendy's pilgrimage to see the earliest icons of Mary that had survived the Byzantine iconoclasm.
Documentaries and other work
In addition to writing more than a dozen books, Sister Wendy has narrated the documentaries:
Sister Wendy's Odyssey (1992)
Sister Wendy's Grand Tour (1997)
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting (1997)
Sister Wendy's American Collection (2001)
Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum (2001)
and also an audio commentary for tourists to the Sistine Chapel:
Sister Wendy's Sistine Chapel Artineraries Tour (2006)
Works about Sister Wendy by other people
Postcards From God: The Sister Wendy Musical was written by Marcus Reeves and Beccy Smith[2] and performed at the Jermyn Street Theatre in the West End in 2007 and Hackney Empire Studio Theatre in 2008.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Beckett
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She was born in South Africa, raised in Edinburgh Scotland. She joined the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1946. After it closed in 1967, she joined the Carmelites. She's taught for quite a few years and also translated Medievil Latin.
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I think she's a Carmelite
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😜 Forget those "atheist/whoknowswhattheybelievein/confused" guides, who profit from Catholic treasures--while at the same time are Catholic bashers 🤬 --Sister Wendy is the "real deal" 👏 .
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Sister Wendy revels in the Renaissance. She visits La Serenissima, Venice in Italy, to enjoy works by Bellini, Titian and Giorgione. These are the details of the works included:
Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (The National Gallery London)
Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian (The National Gallery London)
The Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, also known as Castelfranco Madonna …More
Sister Wendy revels in the Renaissance. She visits La Serenissima, Venice in Italy, to enjoy works by Bellini, Titian and Giorgione. These are the details of the works included:

Madonna of the Meadow, Giovanni Bellini (The National Gallery London)

Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian (The National Gallery London)
The Madonna and Child Between St. Francis and St. Nicasius, also known as Castelfranco Madonna, Giorgione ( La Pala of the Cathedral of Castelfranco, Veneto, Italy)