MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from the: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a distinctive mask fashioned from leather, they was a representation of both fear and illusory hope. These masks, often bearing eyes, were imagined to filt