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b"Ecce Homo was a fresco of Jesus Christ that had degraded significantly over time.\\xa0No one asked the little old lady next door to help.\\xa0She had no training, but how hard could it really be?\\xa0Pretty damn hard, as it turns out.\\xa0In place of the Renaissance-style face was now a smeary circle, wreathed in what looks like a marabou balaclava, with a nose like a folk-art sock doll, the crooked, misplaced eyes of a failed anime sketch, and a mouth like a lipstick smear left by a bass.\\xa0\\nIn the height of irony, many priceless works of art and antiquities have been destroyed by the people who were trying to preserve them.\\xa0Modern art can be especially susceptible to accidental destruction by well-meaning parties.\\xa0Some things were destroyed by unthinking or unfeeling people.\\xa0Some relics were destroyed for the sake of money, even entire pyramids.\\xa0\\xa0Some things were destroyed by people who think they\\u2019re more important than, ya know, the history of the planet and its people.\\xa0\\nBut seeing is believing!\\xa0You can find galleries of some of the examples\\xa0here and here.\\xa0All of the links used in our research are on the website.\\nThanks to our super-fan Michael K for his review, support and today's topic.\\n\\nReach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,\\xa0or Instagram.\\n\\xa0\\nMusic by Kevin MacLeod and sound effects from freesound.org.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"