MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, when 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, he emerged a representation of both fear and fleeting hope. Their masks, often equipped with peepholes, were imagined to