The restoration of the interior of Parliament House, Melbourne is a time-consuming and delicate process-making replicas and replacing the Victorian baroque moulded plaster decorations, applying gold-leaf less than a thousandth of an inch thick, retouching the highlights of the mouldings and repainting the walls and surrounds with the original sky-blue - but the result is both eccentric and splendid
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ACMI Identifier
012499
Language
English
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Melbourne (Vic.)
Crafts & Visual Arts → Architecture - Conservation and restoration
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - presentation
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy
U-Matic (low band); Access Print (Section 1)