A term for lifelikeness or nearness to truth is __________

A) proscenium
B) verisimilitude
C) sottie
D) obsequious
E) farce

B

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Which figure does NOT exemplify the exacting naturalism that characterizes Flemish portraiture of the fifteenth century?

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