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December 4, 2012
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Saint Martin of Tours was a soldier in the Roman army. As he rode by the city gates, he spied a beggar freezing in the wind. Impulsively, he sliced off half of his own cloak to cover the poor man. Thus he became a symbol of charity throughout Europe

This is an illustration I drew for the cover of the 11/2007 edition of The Crown Prints, and the original was raffled off for the benefit of the CP in 2008.

I was inspired to make a drawing of a mounted Saint Martin by a wooden statue I saw while visiting Brussels (thus the Netherlandish title). It bounced around in my head for a year before I made the image. It is another of my attempts to evoke woodblock printing with pen-and-ink. Lastly, "11 November" is Martinmas, the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours.

I'm thinking I might re-do it because I love it so much and would like to fix some of the problems I see in it.

Publishing history: The Crown Prints November 2007

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Critique by ~Oznerol-1516 Feb 1, 2013, 1:42:30 PM
This artwork is trully well painted, it is not only evocative of the woodcuts and engravings of old but visually appealing, it even has the anachronistic feel which those painters used while creating their biblical artwork.
The beggar's despair and attrition are also wonderfully depicted.The saint's figure is at the same time imposing and majestic, and as we don't see his gaze he has a sanctity halo. The hands, the movements, the actitude, is almost scenographic, theatrical in both character's and even the horse shares the artwork's soul, embracing and protecting the beggar. The gate's arch acts as a frame, atracting and focusing the viewer on Sain Martin cutting in half his cape for the old and hungry man. Maybe the cutting should be more relevant, and more clear in the artwork's composition, or more detail in the street we see across the gates could be an improvement.

Simple, beauty and a true reminder of the german renaissance artworks.
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