It is a psychosomatic condition that occurs when contemplating in one place one or more works of art of great beauty. Emotion generates sweating, palpitations, vertigo, tremors, . . . In Florence (Italy) it has been documented for more than a hundred years by cases of tourists who showed these symptoms, and were described by the Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini in the book "La sindrome di Stendhal . Il malessere del viaggiatore di fronte alla grandezza dell'arte" ( "Stendhal syndrome . The traveler's discomfort in the face of the greatness of art.") The name took it from a description in stendhal's travel novel "Rome, Naples et Florence" (1817) where the character recounts the physical emotion of his visit to the Florentine basilica De La Santa Cruz.
STENDHAL SYNDROME cardiac palpitations, sweating, vertigo, confusion, fear that you feel when the person is overwhelmed by beauty in a museum, a place with many pieces of art, a battlefield, ruins or other historical scenarios.