MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In a grim epoch of devastating pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Robe in a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, it became a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. These masks, regularly featuring peepholes, were imagined to f