How do Andrea Pisano's doors for the Florentine Baptistery of San Giovanni (Fig. 18-3) reflect a stylistic shift in Italian art of the fourteenth century?
A. the use of gilded bronze for architectural sculpture
B. the curved forms and courtly posture of the figures
C. the emphasis on the three-dimensional mass of the figures
D. the spatial ambiguities of the settings
Answer: C
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