Art and Love

Do you love the artwork you collect? If you answered yes, here's why.  "Looking at Art Is Like Being in Love: A series of new brain-mapping experiments — in which participants looked at works by Boticelli, Monet, and Constable — have shown that the same part of the brain (the orbito-frontal cortex, to be precise) is stimulated when you're falling in love as when you admire great artworks. ("ARTINFO," May 9, 2011 as reported in "Telegraph")