MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In the grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, as the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from the: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, he emerged a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. They masks, regularly equipped with peepholes, were thought to filter the a