"The Stendhal Syndrome occurs most frequently in Florence, because we have the greatest concentration of Renaissance art in the world.

Many of the case histories describe a foreigner who arrives in Florence, Italy and is overwhelmed by unrelenting depictions of Renaissance art and culture.

After a steady decline in her mental condition, she was admitted to the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital for observation.

From these cases, Magherini made some startling conclusions about the effects of artwork on the psyche, including that during the mirroring between art and subject, a sublime, aesthetic, and uncanny event occurs.

A widow with three children, Graziella Magherini died on 10 December 2023 in Florence, at the age of 96.