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. Clad a long, bizarre coat of waxed cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, they became a representation of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, regularly equipped with glass, were thought to fi