MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In a grim epoch of devastating pestilence, as the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of waxed cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, they emerged a representation of both fear and illusory hope. These masks, often bearing peepholes, were imagined to filte