A publication that takes a new approach at the work of Pieter Bruegel the Younger and his contemporaries. This book shows what appears to be a purely religious subject, has been approached in such a way that it can be seen as a hidden critical commentary on the power structures and religious reality of the Flanders as Pieter Bruegel II knew it. In the book the work of Pieter Bruegel the Younger will be shown with interpretations of the carrying of the cross by predecessors, contemporaries and followers.