The jamb figures of Mary and Elizabeth on the west portal of Reims Cathedral are placed in a naturalistic weight-shift stance also known as __________

a. the International Gothic style
b. intarsia
c. tenebrism
d. quatrefoil
e. contrapposto


e

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