The Bruegel Boy

In the summer of 1566 an inferno of political rebellion and image-smashing, the Beeldenstorm, swept across Flanders and Holland; young Gillis Vervloet, model and muse to artist Pieter Bruegel, almost didn't survive. More than sixty years later, in the Saarland forest, Gil wants only to enter the monastery of St Bartolomus and live out his days in peace, but first he must find their long-lost statue of St Michael. And to prove he is not a heretic, Gil must also account for his life with Bruegel,