The eternal life of Ramon Llull at the Basilica of San Francisco

Monuments | Palma de Mallorca

The tomb of Ramon Llull is located in the church of San Francisco in Palma de Mallorca. Made by Francesc Sagrera and Joan Llobet in 1487, although it remained unfinished. In the upper part we find the recumbent figure of the blessed, placed in a dejected way, in half relief, placing in its upper part two angels that carry his soul. The lower part was left unfinished, with a series of niches on which to place the sculptures of the liberal arts that we can still reconstruct mentally thanks to the lower corbels. Made of alabaster, it is a fine and delicate carving that contrasts the flamboyant excesses of the leaf litter with forms of extreme and meticulous realism in the sculpture of the protagonist.