Original mixed media drawing by Franz Borghese. 41 x 71 cm, in fine condition. Franz Borghese ( Rome , January 21, 1941 - Rome , December 16, 2005 ) was an Italian painter and sculptor , one of the protagonists of Italian painting of the second half of the twentieth century . In his work he represents a turn of the century bourgeoisie, with an ironic and fantastic vein which, the more sharp and bitter it is, the closer and more empathic it is to human weakness, through a language and poetics that rise to a universal metaphor.