MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, as the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from its: the plague doctor. Robe in a long, horrific coat of greased cloth and a alarming mask designed from leather, he was a omen of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were imagined to filter the a