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Graziella Magherini, who has died aged 96, was an Italian psychiatrist who identified and named the psychosomatic phenomenon known as Stendhal Syndrome, a disorder which brings on in patients palpitations and attacks of panic after being exposed to great works of art.
Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel may be one of the most exalted works of art in the world, but Michelangelo's own relationship with it was complicated. Canadian writer and Rome resident Jeannie Marshall had a complicated relationship with it, too, reflecting her family's tormented relationship with the Catholic Church.