There are few personalities in the history of art as mysterious and ambiguous as the hero of this book, Pieter Bruegel the Elder - a mysterious, encrypted, almost mystical figure. The work of the great Dutch artist is the subject of many years of art criticism discussions. The form invented by K.A. Roque for this study allows us to combine, which is quite rare, the view of a scientist and the view of a poet, feeling and intellect. A real biography is essentially a dialogue between two interlocutors worthy of each other - an artist from a distant era, speaking through his works, and a modern artist trying to understand him. You open the book because you love Bruegel’s paintings, and you close it with the feeling that you have found much more than you were looking for. This is greatly facilitated by the excellent translation by T. Baskakova.