Panteón Guirao, Funerary mausoleum in San Isidro Cemetery, Madrid, Spain.
The Panteón Guirao is a modernist mausoleum in the Patio de la Concepción of the Sacramental de San Isidro cemetery in Madrid, facing west. On a double stepped base rests a sarcophagus bearing the name Luisa Sancho Mota, from whose rear rises a large cross with an engraved chrismon. Around it are fourteen figures, seven of them angelic, mixed with allegories of virtues, merged into a single stone mass.
Constructed between 1908 and 1911, this mausoleum was commissioned by Luis Federico Guirao as a memorial for his wife Luisa Sancho Mota, representing early 20th-century modernist funerary architecture in Madrid.
The sculptural program incorporates allegorical figures representing virtues such as charity, forgiveness, compassion, and almsgiving, reflecting the Christian values and moral qualities practiced by the deceased during her lifetime.
The mausoleum stands on a small square in the centre of the main axis of the Patio de la Concepción, ringed by four tall cypresses, and faces west. The crypt by Ignacio de Aldama Elorz is reached through a wrought-iron gate with wild plant motifs, probably drawn by Querol and cast by Francisco Torras Codina. The Art Nouveau railing that once enclosed the plot is gone.
The monument showcases the collaborative work of sculptor Agustí Querol Subirats and architect Ignacio de Aldama Elorz, featuring flowing sculptural movements that embody modernist aesthetics in Spanish funerary art.
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