{"id":465988,"date":"2022-06-21T01:40:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T22:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T01:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T22:40:21","slug":"how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"#How humans destroyed these priceless works of art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3a868811c0c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/#Picassos_%E2%80%98Le_Reve\" >Picasso\u2019s \u2018Le Reve\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/#George_Harrisons_sitar\" >George Harrison\u2019s sitar<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/#Qing_Dynasty_vases\" >Qing Dynasty vases<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/#15_million_%E2%80%98Flowers_painting\" >$1.5 million \u2018Flowers\u2019 painting<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/#%E2%80%98Ecce_Homo_fresco\" >\u2018Ecce Homo\u2019 fresco<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-humans-destroyed-these-priceless-works-of-art\/#800-year-old_sarcophagus\" >800-year-old sarcophagus<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CHow_humans_destroyed_these_priceless_works_of_art%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;How humans destroyed these priceless works of art&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Critics can destroy the careers of artists, but leave it to the clumsy and enraged to destroy the actual works.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a man was arrested after allegedly destroying $5 million of artifacts at the Dallas Museum of Art because he was angry at his girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>But just as shocking are those who mean no harm to the world\u2019s cultural works. Last week, the Marilyn Monroe Collection Instagram account <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cev-Ur4Lfas\/\">posted photos<\/a> alleging to show how the dress Monroe wore to sing \u201cH<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y Birthday Mr. President\u201d in 1962 to John F. Kennedy was damaged when Kim Kardashian wore it to the 2022 Met Gala.<\/p>\n<p>The photos purport to show the dress missing some crystals and with others \u201changing by a thread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not! Museum in Orlando, which owns the dress \u2014\u00a0said to be worth more than $10 million \u2014\u00a0disputed this, saying the dress was not damaged by Kardashian and, in fact, already a number of seams \u201cpulled and worn,\u201d as well as \u201cpuckering at the back by the hooks and eyes.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kim-kardashian-marilyn-monroe-dress.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kim Kardashian attends the 2022 Met Gala in Marilyn Monroe's iconic dress.\" class=\"wp-image-22735241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kim-kardashian-marilyn-monroe-dress.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kim-kardashian-marilyn-monroe-dress.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/kim-kardashian-marilyn-monroe-dress.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kim Kardashian attends the 2022 Met Gala in Marilyn Monroe\u2019s iconic dress.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In any case, Artnet reported that the International Council of Museums was inspired to form a preservation committee and draw up guidelines recommending such pieces <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/mmarilyn-monroe-dress-new-clothing-preservation-committee-2132371\">not be loaned out for wear<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the worst examples of art harmed by human clumsiness, carelessness or worse.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Star-Spangled_Banner_flag\"><\/span>\u2018Star-Spangled Banner\u2019 flag<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/star-spangled-banner-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The flag that inspired the national anthem &quot;Star-Spangled Banner&quot; has been snipped, with remnants given away as souvenirs. \" class=\"wp-image-22735219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/star-spangled-banner-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/star-spangled-banner-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/star-spangled-banner-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The flag that inspired the national anthem \u201cStar-Spangled Banner\u201d has been snipped, with remnants given away as souvenirs. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d \u2014 but there\u2019s a lot of those broad s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>es and bright stars are missing now.<\/p>\n<p>This 1814 version of Old Glory was raised over Fort McHenry and signaled American armed forces defeating British soldiers in the Battle of Baltimore. At the time that Key saw the flag waving, it measured 30-by-42 feet and featured 15 stars. But what\u2019s on display today at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, is much smaller and shows only 14 stars in the field of blue.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Georgiana Armistead Appleton \u2014\u00a0the daughter of Fort McHenry commander Lt. Col. George Armistead, who took the flag home as a keepsake after the battle \u2014\u00a0began snipping off fragments of to give away to veterans, politicians and others. In total, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/spotlight\/flag-day\/banner-facts\">according to the Smithsonian<\/a>, \u201cover two hundred square feet of the Star-Spangled Banner was eventually given away.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Greek_vases_and_other_treasures_at_the_Dallas_Museum_of_Art\"><\/span>Greek vases and other treasures at the Dallas Museum of Art<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dallas-museum-art.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Two of the items recently damaged at the Dallas Museum of Art.\" class=\"wp-image-22735213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dallas-museum-art.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dallas-museum-art.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/dallas-museum-art.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Two of the items recently damaged at the Dallas Museum of Art.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Dallas Museum of Art<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On June 1, Brian Hernandez allegedly got so \u201cmad at his girl,\u201d officials said, that he broke into the Dallas Museum of Art and turned ancient Greek treasures into rubble.<\/p>\n<p>Security cameras captured the 21-year-old smashing items that included a vase from sixth-century Greece and another piece that dated back to 450 BC. In all, before being arrested, the hot-headed art hater caused some $5 million worth of damage. <\/p>\n<p>He was arrested and is now locked up in the Dallas County Jail with bond set at $100,000, online records show.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Picassos_%E2%80%98Le_Reve\"><\/span>Picasso\u2019s \u2018Le Reve\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"510\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/GMNY_181006_C.jpg?w=510\" alt=\"Casino owner Steve Wynn put his elbow through a Pablo Picasso painting just a day after agreeing to sell it for $139 million.\" class=\"wp-image-22735204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/GMNY_181006_C.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 510w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/GMNY_181006_C.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=255 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><figcaption>Casino owner Steve Wynn put his elbow through a Pablo Picasso painting just a day after agreeing to sell it for $139 million.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Graeme Massie\/Splash <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Casino mogul Steve Wynne lost bit when, in 2006, he stumbled into \u201cLe Reve,\u201d a Picasso masterpiece that had been hanging in his office. Wynne\u2019s elbow left a two-inch puncture in the canvas \u2014\u00a0and a $139 million hole in his wallet. That\u2019s how much he had planned to sell the 1932 oil painting, which portrays Picasso\u2019s lover\u00a0Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter, for to Mets owner Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n<p>Adding insult to injury, Wynn damaged the treasured work before a crowd of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> A-listers who included Nora Ephron, Nick Pileggi and Barbara Walters. One of those who was present and told The Post, \u201cThe poor man\u2019s eyesight was so bad [Wynn suffers from retinitis peigmentosa] that he thought he was further away from the painting than he was. What shocked me more than what he did to the painting was how he handled it: He was so calm and quiet. He looked at us and said, \u2018Thank heavens it was me.\u2019 Then he called his wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLe Reve\u201d was repaired and Wynn ended up selling it to Cohen for $150 million. He had more artistic bad luck in 2018, when his 1943 Picasso self-portrait \u201cLe Marin\u201d was withdrawn from a Christie\u2019s auction after it was accidentally damaged by a paint roller that had been left propped against a wall.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"George_Harrisons_sitar\"><\/span>George Harrison\u2019s sitar<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"685\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/george-harrison-sitar.jpg?w=685\" alt=\"A museum staff member dropped George Harrison's sitar and broke the fret board off the instrument.\" class=\"wp-image-22735433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/george-harrison-sitar.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1370 1370w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/george-harrison-sitar.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1027 1027w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/george-harrison-sitar.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=685 685w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/george-harrison-sitar.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=342 342w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/george-harrison-sitar.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\"\/><figcaption>A museum staff member dropped George Harrison\u2019s sitar and broke the fret board off the instrument.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Things got out of tune when a sitar that had belonged to George Harrison \u2014\u00a0and which he used during the recording the Beatles\u2019 \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d in 1967 \u2014\u00a0was broken at London\u2019s Victoria &amp; Albert Museum in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6849771\/How-staff-V-Museum-dropped-smashed-60s-instrument-beloved-George-Harrison.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>, a staffer dropped the instrument, which was to be part of a Harrison exhibit, so that its fretboard snapped right off. Museum employees then had to make \u201can awkward telephone call\u201d to the Beatle\u2019s widow, Olivia. <\/p>\n<p>As to what the instrument might have been worth, another of Harrison\u2019s sitars\u00a0\u2014 the one he played on \u201cNorwegian Wood\u201d \u2014\u00a0sold for some $57,000 at auction in 2017.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Qing_Dynasty_vases\"><\/span>Qing Dynasty vases<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fitzwilliam-vase-smashed-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Two of the vases broken when Nick Flynn fell down a museum's stairs.\" class=\"wp-image-22735172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fitzwilliam-vase-smashed-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fitzwilliam-vase-smashed-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/fitzwilliam-vase-smashed-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Two of the vases broken when Nick Flynn fell down a museum\u2019s stairs.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Ian McCarney\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to Nick Flynn, from Cambridge, England, he was visiting that town\u2019s Fitzwilliam Museum in 2006 when he tripped on his untied shoelace and went tumbling to the bottom of a staircase \u2014\u00a0breaking three vases dating back to China\u2019s Qing Dynasty. <\/p>\n<p>In trying to stop his fall, Flynn said he hit the first vase and then the other two went down \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/2006\/feb\/06\/arts.artsnews1\">like a set of dominos<\/a>.\u201d The pieces, which were displayed on a windowsill, had been part of the Kangxi Empire, which lasted from 1662-1722. The damage was estimated at around $122,000. <\/p>\n<p>And the vases, as it turns out, were not insured. Soon after the incident, a police spokesman announced that Flynn had been \u201carrested on suspicion of criminal damage.\u201d Flynn told the Guardian that he \u201cspent a night in the cells. It wasn\u2019t too heavy: the police kept offering me tea and beans and potato wedges.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1011\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/imperial-chinese-vase-2.jpg?w=1011\" alt=\"Had a hole not been drilled into this Qing dynasty vase \u2014 to turn it into a lamp \u2014\u00a0it could have been worth $306,000 with its original match.\" class=\"wp-image-22735407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/imperial-chinese-vase-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1517 1516w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/imperial-chinese-vase-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1011 1011w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/imperial-chinese-vase-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=506 505w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/imperial-chinese-vase-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\"\/><figcaption>Had a hole not been drilled into this Qing dynasty vase \u2014 to turn it into a lamp \u2014\u00a0it could have been worth $306,000 with its original match.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bournemouth News\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming to have not \u201cbroken anything in ages,\u201d Flynn added that he feels no guilt: \u201cI actually think I did the museum a favor. So many people have gone there to see the windowsill where it happened that I must have increased visitation numbers. They should make me a trustee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the family of a southwest London granny <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/hp\/front\/going-cheap-the-ps250-000-vase-now-only-worth-ps20-000-after-owners-turned-it-into-table-lamp-6843910.html\">decided to get an old lamp from her home appraised<\/a> in 2008. The good news: The blue-and-white ceramic base, originally a vase, dated to the early 18th century, having been made in China during the Qing dynasty. It was part of a pair worth an estimated $306,000. The bad news? Sometime over the last 300 years, it had been converted from vase to lamp, including drilling a small hole in the vase. That brought the value down to around $25,000.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"15_million_%E2%80%98Flowers_painting\"><\/span>$1.5 million \u2018Flowers\u2019 painting<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Boy accidentally punches hole in $1.5m painting\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W3rxCzZmK8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A clumsy kid lost his footing while touring a Leonardo da Vinci-focused exhibit at a museum in Taiwain in 2015, tumbling fist-first into a 17th-century painting valued at $1.5 million \u2014\u00a0and it was all caught on video.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily for the 12-year-old, the Huashan 1914 Creative Park museum in Taipei had insurance to cover the restoration cost, so his family was not held liable. <\/p>\n<p>But exhibition organized Sun Chi-hsuan told CNN, \u201cI\u2019m actually thinking of asking the boy back to be a volunteer in the exhibition one day \u2014 as a penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Ecce_Homo_fresco\"><\/span>\u2018Ecce Homo\u2019 fresco<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ecce-homo-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Cecilia Gim\u00e9nez's now-infamous restoration (right) of the fresco &quot;Ecce Homo.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-22735141\" width=\"618\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ecce-homo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1233 1236w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ecce-homo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=924 927w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ecce-homo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=616 618w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ecce-homo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=308 309w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/ecce-homo-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\"\/><figcaption>Cecilia Gim\u00e9nez\u2019s now-infamous restoration (right) of the fresco \u201cEcce Homo.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cecilia Gim\u00e9nez was bothered by the rough shape and peeling paint of \u201cEcce Homo\u201d (\u201cBehold the Man\u201d), a beloved fresco hanging at her church in Borja, Spain \u2014\u00a0so the 80-year-old decided to fix it in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that she had no art training. Her \u201crestoration\u201d of the circa 1930 rendering of Jesus Christ, by a minor artist, ended up being compared to a monkey and a potato. Heirs of the man who painted it were so horrified that they threatened to sue Gim\u00e9nez. <\/p>\n<p>But there was an upside: The botched artwork turned into a magnet for kitsch-loving tourists. By 2016, more than 160,000 visitors flocked to the Sanctuary of Mercy church to view it, scooping up \u201cEcce Homo\u201d souvenirs from pens to mugs to wine featuring Jesus\u2019 tragically altered face on the label.<\/p>\n<p>By then Gimenez didn\u2019t fail so bad about her her restoration that turned into destruction. \u201cI\u2019ve gone to a psychiatrist and I take medication to feel a bit better,\u201d she told The Post at the time. \u201cNow I look [at the painting and think], \u2018It\u2019s okay, you\u2019re not so ugly.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"800-year-old_sarcophagus\"><\/span>800-year-old sarcophagus<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"861\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/cracked-coffin.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"This 800-year-old sandstone casket was broken in a family photo.\" class=\"wp-image-22735146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/cracked-coffin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/cracked-coffin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/cracked-coffin.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>This 800-year-old sandstone casket was broken in a family photo.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">SWNS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A couple of parents at the Prittwell Priory Museum in Southend, Essex, England, thought it would be hilarious in 2017 to put their young son inside an 800-year-old sandstone casket, known as a \u201csarcophagus\u201d for a gag photo. <\/p>\n<p>They raised the boys over a see-through barrier but did not realize that the coffin, which had been found on museum grounds in 1921 (with a skeleton inside), was actually in three sections. One piece, under the weight of the kid, tumbled away and smashed onto the ground. <\/p>\n<p>The family fled the scene without telling anyone what had happened, leaving staffers, as conservator Claire Reed told the BBC, \u201cshocked and upset\u201d at the \u201cunbelievable incident.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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