Kiss of Death Collage “The Kiss of Death” (El Beso de la Muerte) is undoubtedly the most famous and outstanding composition in the Cementiri del’Est. A winged skeleton representing Death, in an almost erotic manner, kisses the forehead of a young man who collapses. In 1930 the Llaudet family lost one of their young sons and wanted to make a sculpture for his grave representing the lines from Cinto Verdaguer’s epitaph: But his young heart can’t carry on; in his veins, blood stops and freezes and the lost strength to faith holds on feeling the kiss of death fall upon. (via xixerone)

Kiss of Death Collage

“The Kiss of Death” (El Beso de la Muerte) is undoubtedly the most famous and outstanding composition in the Cementiri del’Est. A winged skeleton representing Death, in an almost erotic manner, kisses the forehead of a young man who collapses.

In 1930 the Llaudet family lost one of their young sons and wanted to make a sculpture for his grave representing the lines from Cinto Verdaguer’s epitaph:


But his young heart can’t carry on;
in his veins, blood stops and freezes
and the lost strength to faith holds on
feeling the kiss of death fall upon.

(via xixerone)