According to the story, in 1930, the Llaudet family was mourning the death of their son and created this sculpture for his tomb. The epitaph bears famous verses by one of Catalan's greatest poets, Jacint Verdaguer:
“And his young heart can not help;
in his veins the blood stops and freezes
and encouragement lost faith embraces
fall feeling the kiss of death”
Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Kiss of Death
Eugene of My Modern Met pointed us to this wonderful piece of Memento
Mori artwork, titled the Kiss of Death in Barcelona's Poblenou Cemetery:
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