She painted bunnies with face masks, children in beaked plague doctor masks and oil paintings on pieces of toilet paper. “It’s really easy to want to hide from it and pretend it’s not ...

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated ... You could copy it onto a scrap of paper and carry it on your body, for instance." ...

The same gift shop offered a paper-mache version of the mask for sale to tourists like me. Engraving of the Plague Doctor, Paul Fürst, c. 1656. The plague doctor stands in stark contrast to most ...

and performed autopsies—and some did so while wearing beaked masks. Charles de Lorme, a plague doctor who treated 17th century royals, is often credited with the uniform. Their head gear was ...

a mask with a long, bird-like beak, which was stuffed with dried flowers, herbs, and spices. (Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor” costumes worn during the Carnival of Venice ...

What kind of face mask have you been using? Join the conversation below. The crow-like plague-doctor mask of 17th- and 18th-century Europe is one of the earliest and creepiest protective coverings.

One man wore a plague doctor costume, another had a mask with the front ripped out and one donned a vest saying: 'Save human rights. No to 5G. No to vaccinations.' The protest was to counter the ...