Broken Hill's most valuable painting, Vae Victis, has been returned to the city after almost a year of painstaking restoration and study.
The massive oil painting was created by English classicist painter Arthur Hacker in 1890, and depicts the sack of Morocco by the Almohad Caliphate.
In June 2017 the $800,000 painting was carefully transported to Melbourne to undergo restoration at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne.
Senior Paintings Conservator Cushla Hill led a team that that worked on the...