MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

In a grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, when the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of oiled cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, they emerged a representation of both fear and illusory hope. These masks, regularly featuring glass, were imagined to f