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Willis (1835) p.119 writes, citing the door of Santo Stefano, that ‘sometimes the edge mouldings may occupy so much of the arch that its elementary rectangular form disappears: thus the pier of which BC is the plan [the diagram is of the moulding of the door of Santo Stefano], the arrangement of mouldings seems to be governed by no such rule, and the distinction of orders is lost; but cases of this kind are few and principally confined to Venetian examples; for even in the late Italian Gothic doorways of the cathedral at Florence, S.Petronio in Bologna, and S. Tommaso at Verona, the rectangular forms and the nook-shafts are retained.’
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