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Similarly, the facade S. Maria delIa Spina, Pisa is dominated by a third pediment. In plan the domed bays of Guarini's church of the Immaculate Conception in Turin are inflected in shape, but they are also resolved by a minor intermediate bay.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p. 99.

The ornamental pediment at the center of the elevation of Charleval is also a dominant third element, as are the gable and the stair at the front of the farmer's house near Chieti--similar, in this context, to the function of the stair to the entrance of Stratford Hall, Virginia.
Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), p.99.

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