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 17th ...

The plague was once the most feared disease in the world, capable of wiping out hundreds of millions of people in seemingly unstoppable global pandemics and afflicting its victims with painfully ...

There are ways to dress protectively during a pandemic, and there are ways that scream, “too soon.” A mysterious black-swathed figure dressed in full 17th-century plague doctor garb falls into that ...