One of the most distinctive masks worn during the Carnival of Venice is “Il Medico della Peste,” or “The Plague Doctor.” But the distinctive bone-white mask and black clothing was actually ...

The plague doctor costume looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper, and has come to represent both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine.

Avoid him like the plague! Cops in the English ... dressed as a 17th-century plague doctor, according to a report. The menacing oddball — who sports a black cloak, hat and beak-like mask ...

(Today, you might recognize it from the “plague doctor” costumes worn ... them that their silly-looking mask isn't technically a part of the Black Plague's lasting legacy (even if it is ...

In the 17th century, people believed these outfits could purify poisonous air. They were wrong. During the 17th-century European plague, physicians wore beaked masks, leather gloves, and long ...

In Italy and France during the 17th century, the plague doctor was a physician ... according to historian Winston Black it is doubtful that de Lorme was the inventor of this mask.

While it may seem silly today, when Hippocrates defined the four humors—blood, black bile ... we now associate the plague doctor more with death than healing. The mask, with its skull-like ...

This is a 17th-century German or Austrian plague doctor mask, from the collection of the ... Of 18 plague doctors who worked in Venice during the Black Death of the 14th century, five died ...

Despite its fearsome appearance, the plague doctor’s costume — the “personal protective ... to safely care for patients during the Black Death. The beak was stuffed with fragrant herbs ...

"Made my nurse be a medieval plague doctor (I ... that evokes big Black Swan energy, the 2010 thriller drama that stars Natalie Portman as an impassioned ballerina. The costume show and tell ...

Police have said they are keen to trace a person who has been walking around a village dressed as a 17th Century plague ... dressed in a black cloak, hat, and pointed beak-like mask.