Thrown out of his family for a crime he didn’t commit, Gil becomes model and muse to the great Pieter Bruegel. But in Bruegel's world politics, art and religion are explosively combined and soon love and vocation are also at war.

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I'm not going to apologise for all the Bruegel pictures, because I've spent the best part of a decade living with them and writing about them, and I STILL never tire of them. But if you're wondering what they're about, it's @hollandhousebooks.bsky.social