• ‘He had a sensitive soul’: inside Silvio Berlusconi’s bizarre art collection

    During the final years of his life, the former Italian premier amassed thousands of ‘mostly worthless’ works from late-night shopping channels. Lucas Vianini became their curatorLucas Vianini was presenting what he described as “a very suggestive” painting of a grieving Virgin Mary on a late-night shopping channel when the art expert received a call from a keen buyer.It was not uncommon to receive prank calls when presenting paintings during the live TV auctions. So when

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!