overdoor
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thumb|Carved and inlaid Late Baroque supraporte in Toruń, Poland
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- architectural element
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- work of art
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- Almagro Almacén de los Fúcares 250.jpg
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- Overdoors
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|Carved and inlaid Late Baroque supraporte in Toruń, Poland
An "overdoor" (or "Supraporte" as in German, or "sopraporte" as in Italian) is a painting, bas-relief or decorative panel, generally in a horizontal format, that is set, typically within ornamental mouldings, over a door, or was originally intended for this purpose.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “overdoor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.