As demonstrated in works such as Battista Sforza and Federico da Montefeltro (Fig. 20-31) by Piero della Francesca, Italian portraiture of the fifteenth century is distinguished by ______________

A. the use of full profiles
B. a tendency to idealize facial features
C. confusing spatial relationships
D. exacting descriptions of texture and surface detail


Answer: A

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