MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In the grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, as the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from its: the plague doctor. Clad a long, bizarre coat of oiled cloth and a unusual mask designed from leather, he became a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. They masks, regularly featuring glass, were imagined to filter the miasma th