And there are other masks with modern relevance, such as those dating to the 1500s used by doctors dealing with the plague. The eyes were glass, and the long beak was stuffed with aromatic herbs ...

Doctors Didn't Actually Wear Beaked Masks During the Black Plague. By Kirstin Fawcett ... (Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor” costumes worn during the Carnival of Venice, ...

Ornate masks . Venice’s ubiquitous, ... When attending plague victims, the doctor crammed the beak-shaped nose of his mask with herbs, ...

During the 17th-century European plague, physicians wore beaked masks, leather gloves, and long coats in an attempt to fend off the disease. Their iconic and ominous look, as depicted in this 1656 ...

In this Feb.11, 2017 file photo, men wears masks, some of them pest doctor masks, in St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy. This carnival mask derives from 16th century doctors wearing beak-nosed ...

With their dark, heavy robes and beaked masks, the plague doctor will forever be associated with the bubonic plague, even though they first appeared in France and Italy in the 1600s, nearly 300 ...

During the outbreak of the bubonic plague in Italy in the 1650s, it was believed that the doctors taking care of the sick would dawn these masks in addition to long garb and wide-brimmed leather hats.

I first glimpsed a plague doctor years ago, in a framed etching on the wall of a Venetian gift shop. The image was macabre: a sinister, masked figure draped in a dark robe. The head was covered ...

Plague Doctors, with infamous beak masks, are a commonly associated with the Black Death. However, these costumes were far less common and emerged much later, in the 17th century. (Image credit ...

Cloaked in black with their faces hidden by bone-white masks of plague doctors or the dead, Venetians marked a historical scourge in an annual procession held under the shadow of the new ...