MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, he emerged a symbol of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, often featuring peepholes, were imagined to filt