In this 1999 book, Michael Wheeler challenges critical orthodoxy by
arguing that John Ruskin's writing is underpinned by a sustained
trust in divine wisdom: a trust nurtured by his imaginative
engagement with King Solomon and the temple in Jerusalem, and with
the wisdom literature of the Old Testament. In Modern Painters, The
Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice, belief in the
wisdom of God the Father informed Ruskin's Evangelical natural
theology and his celebration of Turner's landscape painting, while
the wisdom of God the Son lay at the heart of his Christian
aesthetics. Whereas 'the author of Modern Painters' sought to teach
his readers how to see architecture, paintings and landscapes, the
'Victorian Solomon' whose religious life was troubled, and who
created various forms of modern wisdom literature in works such as
Unto this Last, The Queen of the Air and Fors Clavigera, wished to
teach them how to live.
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