The venerable icon of the "Charity of St. Martin" (a knight slicing his cloak to share it with a naked beggar) underwent a curious transformation in the genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age. Martin's Charity became compromised by the inclusion of battling peasants and other mendicants around the central figures. With a focus on a recently acquired panel attributed to the Utrecht painter Jost Corneslisz Droochsloot, Prof. Walsh will explore the religious, popular cultural, and art historical questions raised by this manipulation of standard iconography.