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Leon Battista Alberti, letter to Matteo de Pasti, 1445.
This tiny sketch changed architecture forever: in the letter, Alberti advises his contractor to use a double scroll to smooth the transition between nave and aisle of his church in Rimini, the so-called Tempio Malatestiano. It was a novel solution that remained popular for centuries.
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