SISTER WENDY: ART


Sister Wendy Beckett looks at how, in the Baroque period, the Catholic Church used art and artists to fight back against the Reformation of Rome. 
Wendy Mary Beckett[1] (25 February 1930 – 26 December 2018), better known as Sister Wendy, was a British Catholic religious sister and art historian[2] who became known internationally during the 1990s when she presented a series of BBC television documentaries on the history of art.[3] Her programmes, such as Sister Wendy's Odyssey and Sister Wendy's Grand Tour, often drew a 25 percent share of the British viewing audience.[4] In 1997 she made her debut on US public television, with The New York Times describing her as "a sometime hermit who is fast on her way to becoming the most unlikely and famous art critic in the history of television."[5]
 Vatican's International Theological Commission officially published a major 29,000-word doctrinal document titled "Caring for Our Common Home: A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God

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