Sister Wendy Beckett has transformed public appreciation of art through her astonishing knowledge, insight and passion for painting and painters.Witness the awakening that would transform the Western world - the Renaissance, where Fra Angelico and Botticelli redefined art. See the genius of Leonardo da Vinci and discuss the sly smile on his Mona Lisa. In Rome, see masterpieces commissioned by the Popes - Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling and the works of Raphael - and in Venice, the works of Titian and Giorgione. Then follow the Renaissance north across the Alps, where religious strife brought a new purpose to painting, and where in Nuremberg, Durer redefined the role of the artist in society - even as the Inquisition forced others to flee their countries in search of artistic freedom.
