Accidental damage of art

Pablo Picasso's 1963 work Le Peintre (The Painter) was part of the flight's cargo and was destroyed in the crash.

The day after the price deal, while showing the painting to reporters, Wynn accidentally elbowed it, creating a significant tear.

Wynn claimed the price difference from his Lloyd's of London insurers,[6][7] and the case was eventually settled out of court in March 2007.

[10] In 2006, a man fell after stepping on his loose shoelace at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, and shattered three Chinese vases of the Qing dynasty (17th century).

[11][12] On 22 January 2010, a woman accidentally fell into The Actor (L'acteur), a 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso on exhibit at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

For six weeks, the painting lay flat, loaded with small silk sand bags in order to realign the mechanical stress caused by the fall.

[15] In 2015, a 12-year-old boy visiting an exhibition at Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei, tripped and ripped a hole in Paolo Porpora's Flowers.

Among the paintings, were works by Luca Giordano, El Greco, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, José de Ribera, Peter Paul Rubens, Frans Snyders, Massimo Stanzione, Tintoretto, Tiziano, Velázquez, and Paolo Veronese.

Several examples of failed restoration, some commissioned by or carried out by widely-respected organisations such as the Louvre and the British Museum (with respect to the damage to the Parthenon Marbles), and others by amateurs, are included in articles on the Artnet website[28] and elsewhere.