That does hide after grotesque, placed by comical aesthetics of Иеронима Босха? What attitude toward modern to him society did an artist express through the eccentric plots? What do infernal middle Ages of Босха catch us so? From where on a canvas did a pregnant emperor appear and why, finally, owls - not what is seemed ? Answers for these intriguing questions - on the pages of this book, deep and saturated research of work master of Netherlands.Legend of the world painting, Босх became famous not so much as a talented graphic artist, but as a skilful mystifier, inventor of own picturesque language in that the base interlaces with elevated, the vicious is cruelly revealed, and the everyday and "normal" is perverted in макабрической dance.To get to know Босха - means to glance in consciousness of medieval man, understand, above what he laughs, what is afraid of, that despises, and before what venerates. Picking up the key to florid symbolism of artist succeeded to Valeria Косяковой - author of sensational book "Apocalypse of middle Ages", candidate культурологи, to teacher РГГУ and employee of Center of visual researches of middle Ages and New time.