The Kiss of Death

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The Kiss of Death 

The sculpture “The Kiss of Death” (The Bes de la Mort) is undoubtedly the most famous and outstanding composition of the cemetery. A winged skeleton, death, in an almost erotic kisses the forehead of a young man collapses. By 1930 Llaudet family lost a son in his youth and wanted to make a sculpture for his tomb, which represent the following verses of the epitaph Cinto 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”

The request was made to the workshop of marble sculptures of James Beard
 (J.Barba), who always has been awarded the creation of this beautiful 
sculpture, a reference in many exhibitions of funeral art. But since the
 master was already 70 when he was done, it seems more plausible version
 of the work was conceived by Joan Fontbernat, son of the owner and 
sculptor qualified workshop, although it appears that the back of the 
ribs, a stunning realism, was sculpted by Artemi Barba.