MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In the grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, during the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from the shadows: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, he became a symbol of both fear and fleeting hope. Their masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were imagined to filt