MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In a grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, as the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask designed from leather, it was a representation of both fear and illusory hope. Their masks, often equipped with peepholes, were believed to fi