Episodes (10)

Jun 30, 1996
Sister Wendy considers the roots of Western painting, from prehistoric cave dwellers to Pompeii and Iona.

Jul 07, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett takes a closer look at art in the Middle Ages. Featuring works by Giotto, Duccio, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini, Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden and Hieronymus Bosch.

Jul 14, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett visits Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance, where she explains why she thinks the Mona Lisa is smiling. Then she moves on to Rome, where she explores the Sistine Chapel.

Jul 21, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett looks at the Renaissance in Venice and Northern Europe, taking in works by Bellini, Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Durer, Holbein and Bruegel along the way.

Aug 04, 1996
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.

Aug 11, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett explores the golden ages of painting in 17th century Spain, France and the Netherlands. She journeys from Rembrandt's Amsterdam through the Spanish court and the works of Velazquez to the ruins of ancient Rome.

Aug 18, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett studies English painting at the time of the Industrial Revolution, looks at art during the French Revolution, and visits Spain for the romantic genius of Goya.

Aug 25, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett tells the story of the Impressionists and their followers, visiting Monet's garden at Giverny and the field where Van Gogh shot himself.

Sep 01, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett visits Paris and the south of France as she traces the beginnings of modern art from Cezanne to Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Dali and Klee.

Sep 08, 1996
Sister Wendy Beckett focuses on the art world that developed in America after the Second World War, looking at works by Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol and Lucian Freud.
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Sister Wendy's Story of Painting Season 1 (1996) is released on Jun 30, 1996. Watch Sister Wendy's Story of Painting online - the English Documentary TV series from United Kingdom. Sister Wendy's Story of Painting is directed by John Silver and created by Wendy Beckett with Wendy Beckett and .