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 the: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of waxed cloth and a distinctive mask fashioned from leather, he became a symbol of both fear and fleeting hope. These masks, regularly equipped with glass, were imagined to filter