MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In a grim epoch of devastating pestilence, as the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, they was a omen of both fear and illusory hope. Their masks, regularly bearing eyes, were believed to filter the miasma th