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Johannes van Doetecum

Saint Martin with his Horse in a Ship

c. 1561
Etching and engraving on paper

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

In Hieronymus Bosch’s antic vision of the world, appearances were often deceiving. Here Saint Martin’s pious act of dividing his cloak to clothe a naked beggar takes place within a chaotic panorama of beggars of all types—both those genuinely afflicted by deprivation and disease and mere charlatans.

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