The Story of Stendall Syndrome

Stendall syndrome is a condition wherein people who experience great works of art are overcome with emotion. The name comes from a French writer named Marie Henri Biel, who was known by the pen name Stendall and wrote this in 1817 about his trip to Florence. There's actually a Dario Argento horror film called Stendall syndrome, where the central character is someone who is afflicted by this condition. If you all experienced anything like this, or observed or yourself is experienced, you know, crippling emotional, overwhelmingness, in the face of beauty or art.