MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In a grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, as the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from the shadows: the plague doctor. Clad a long, bizarre coat of oiled cloth and a unusual mask fashioned from leather, he became a symbol of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were imagined to filter th