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Photo: Enric, CC BY-SA 4.0
El bes de la mort
By Jaume Barba
A winged skeleton locks lips with a dying youth — Poblenou Cemetery's "El bes de la mort" ("The Kiss of Death") plays like Rodin's tenderness fused with a Gothic memento mori, Symbolist marble frozen mid-embrace between eros and oblivion.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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