Wendy Beckett - Documentaries and Bibliography

Documentaries and Bibliography

Beckett has narrated the following documentaries:

  • Sister Wendy's Odyssey (1992)
  • Sister Wendy's Pains of Glass (1996)
  • 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)

Additionally she features in the following:

  • Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers (1997)
  • Three appearances on Charlie Rose (3 October 1997; 18 November 1997; 19 September 2000) are available on DVD.
  • The Art of Dying (2009) (Dan Cruickshank interviewed Sister Wendy on the helpfulness of art in the face of death)
  • Churches: How to Read Them (2010) (Richard Taylor and Sister Wendy discussed the intense medieval devotion to the Virgin Mary and its effect on Reformation)
  • Treasures of Heaven (2011) (Andrew Graham-Dixon talked to Sister Wendy about relics and reliquaries)

Bibliography:

  • 2011
    • The Christ Journey - the art of Greg Tricker.
  • 2011
    • Sister Wendy Contemplates the Iconic Jesus
  • 2009
    • Encounters With God: In Quest of Ancient Icons of Mary
  • 2008
    • Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons for Advent And the Christmas Season
      with John Leinenweber (Editor), Irene Edmonds (Translator), Wendy Mary Beckett (Translator), Conrad Greenia (Translator)
  • 2007
    • Sister Wendy on Prayer
    • Sister Wendy's Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Faith
  • 2006
    • Speaking to the Heart: 100 Favorite Poems
    • Sky-blue Is the Sapphire Crimson the Rose: Stillpoint of Desire in John of Forde by John, abbot of Forde, translated by Wendy Beckett
    • Joy Lasts: On the Spiritual in Art
  • 2001
    • Sister Wendy's Impressionist Masterpieces
    • Sister Wendy's American Masterpieces
  • 2000
    • Sister Wendy's American Collection
    • In the Midst of Chaos, Peace (with Mary J. Dorcy and Dan Paulos)
    • Sister Wendy's Book of Muses (with Justin Pumfrey)
  • 1999
    • Sister Wendy's 1,000 Masterpieces (with Patricia Wright)
    • My Favourite Things: 75 Works of Art from Around the World
  • 1998
    • Sister Wendy's Nativity
    • Inner Life: A Fellow Traveler's Guide to Prayer (by David Torkington; foreword by Sister Wendy)
    • Sister Wendy's Odyssey: A Journey of Artistic Discovery
    • Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations
    • Sister Wendy's Book of Saints
    • The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art Through the Ages
  • 1997
    • Sister Wendy's Story of Christmas: Adventures in Art
    • Sister Wendy in Conversation with Bill Moyers: The Complete Conversation (edited by Karen Johnson)
    • The Wisdom of the Apostles (compiled by Philip Law; introduction by Sister Wendy)
    • The Duke and the Peasant: Life in the Middle Ages (with Jean De Berry)
    • Max Beckmann and the Self
  • 1996
    • Sister Wendy's Grand Tour: Discovering Europe's Great Art
    • Pains of Glass: The Story of the Passion from King's College Chapel, Cambridge (with George Pattison)
  • 1995
    • Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Joy
    • Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Love
    • Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Peace
    • Sister Wendy's Meditations: Meditations on Silence
    • A Child's Book of Prayer in Art
  • 1994
    • The Story of Painting
    • The Gaze of Love: Meditations on Art and Spiritual Transformation
  • 1993
    • The Mystical Now: Art and the Sacred

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