 The effects of time on the murals, coupled with the inevitable damage caused by the delicate operation of mounting the crumbling plaster on canvas, meant that most of the murals required restoration work and some detail may have been lost, but in this respect "Saturn Devouring His Son" appears to have fared better than some of the other works.In 2010, "Saturn Devouring His Son" became a popular Internet meme after photoshopped images of the painting surfaced online.The figures depicted in the artwork have also been labelled frequently, Saturn usually representing something the meme's creator finds to be destructive.