We have NO idea why the picture fell, it's been up for months since I repainted that room yellow. It's a very heavy frame, we *think* that using the fireplace lately may have made that wall expand and contract and the single-point it was hanging from (my bad) was sturdy but slowly loosening over the last few weeks. And I'm not kidding, Bill was UP-SET, he couldn't even handle helping me clean up the pieces poor guy; it took him from 9pm to 3am Xmas Eve to build and it was gone in a split second
...and it was truly epic, it had ten working lights and everything; BUT it was waaayyy more fragile than it looked in the pic on Ebay, we weren't even sure we could get it from the family room to her bedroom without it falling apart. Ah well, we got to see her face on Christmas morning at least
The picture didn't break, not even a scratch in the glass or frame