Elkins argues that writing is what art historians produce, and, whether such writing is a transparent vehicle for the transmission of facts or an embattled foru

The names of Masaccio (1401-28) and Masolino (1383-1440) are inseparable, and their collaboration is an essential starting point for the study of either artist.

Masaccio's first work for which evidence exists is the Pisa Polyptych, painted for the Carmelite church in Pisa in 1426, but now dismembered and largely lost. H