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)
