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La historia del Arte oculta numerosos aspectos, hechos omitidos y detalles silenciados que configuran esta enciclopedia paralela, en la que tienen cabida las mujeres - olvidadas durante siglos - las enfermedades que sufrieron los creadores, o las mil y una circunstancias que suelen pasar desapercibidas en manuales que siguen manteniendo una concepción decimonónica, académica y parcial, del estudio del arte.

Sheridan Morley writes: "When my father died at eighty-four on the morning of Derby Day 1992 (one of the few he ever missed), he and I had been together for just over fifty years. In the immediate aftermath of his sudden death, I knew two things; how much I would always miss the sheer joy of his company, and how much I wanted to write about him, if only to explain to myself and my children the life and career of the last great Boulevardier of his or any other time."