MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, when the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a distinctive mask designed from leather, they became a omen of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, often equipped with eyes, were imagined to filte