Sister Wendy's story of painting

Sister Wendy Beckett has transformed public appreciation of art through her astonishing knowledge, insight and passion for painting and painters. From the mysterious cave paintings at Lascaux to the ecstatic spiritual visions of the Middle Ages, Sister Wendy traces the roots of Western art - the tomb paintings of ancient Egypt, Greek vases and statuary, the Roman paintings of Pompeii, Ireland's masterpiece, the Book of Kells, and France's Les Tres Riches Heures. Also see the dawn of artistic Enlightenment in the work of Giotto and the vibrant art and life of Tuscany, before traveling north across Europe to Bruge, where Flemish painter Jan van Eyck created miracles with oil and wood, and to Holland, where the horrific visions of Hieronymus Bosch marked the end of the Gothic era.