... messages alongside nostalgic paintings inspired by literature, mediaeval legend and religious works. The Brotherhood chronicled their aims thus "To have genuine ideas to express; to study nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues"1. They wrote themselves a list of names that they considered to be immortals starting with Jesus Christ, insisted upon by Hunt, and also contained names like Shakespeare, Keats, Shelly and Browning. Although they were most famous for their paintings some members of the Brotherhood also composed poetry and for a time they produced a monthly magazine costing sixpence and entitled 'The Germ: thoughts towards nature in poetry, literature and art'. Early Pre-Raphaelite paintings were influenced by Ruskin, ...

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