Is the beauty of a sculpture in the brain of the beholder?

Time November 20, 2007 - 5:00am Link Is the beauty of a sculpture in the brain of the beholder? Description Is there an objective biological basis for the experience of beauty in art? Or is aesthetic experience entirely subjective? This question has been addressed in a paper published in this week's PLoS ONE, Cinzia Di Dio, Emiliano Macaluso and Giacomo Rizzolatti. The researchers used fMRI scans to study the neural activity in subjects with no knowledge of art criticism, who were shown images of Classical and Renaissance sculptures. Source AAAS Science News Email to friendBookmark thisPrint version » login or register to post comments | 61 reads Score: 0  0 vote(s) updated every 10 min