The golden beauty: brain response to classical and renaissance sculptures.

Is there an objective, biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? Using fMRI technique, we addressed this question by presenting viewers, naïve to art criticism, with images of masterpieces of Classical and Renaissance sculpture. Employing p...

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Main Authors: Cinzia Di Dio, Emiliano Macaluso, Giacomo Rizzolatti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2065898?pdf=render