Franz Borghese (Rome, 21st January 1941 – Rome, 16th December 2005) was an Italian painter and sculptor, one of the protagonists of Italian painting of the late twentieth century. In his work he represents a bourgeoisie of the beginning of the century, with an ironic and fantastic vein which, when it is more sharp and bitter, is closer and more empathetic to human weakness, through a language and a poetics that rise to a universal metaphor.