There may have been a few doctors in the 17th and 18th centuries who wore the outfit, including the iconic beak mask, but most medieval and early modern physicians who studied and treated plague ...

Ultimately, the plague doctors’ outfits—and methods—didn’t make much of a difference. “Unfortunately,” writes historian Frank M. Snowden, “the therapeutic strategies of early modern ...

If you see someone dressed like a plague doctor today, their mask will typically be a long, white curve sculpted from papier-mâché. These modern masks are based on the Medico della Peste ...

The 11 painted scenes on the altarpiece were commissioned by an Antonite monastery treating sick peasants and victims of the plague ... I am in the painting, in a mask. I am not a doctor nor ...

I first glimpsed a plague doctor years ago ... vigil at a child’s bedside in Sir Luke Fildes’s classic painting “The Doctor”? What about the competence and command portrayed in the ...

Frank himself has taken to the streets of Edinburgh in plague doctor guise Scots artist Frank To has opened a new exhibition in Edinburgh of paintings inspired by medieval plague doctors.

The appearance of medical themes in Dutch paintings of the period is no doubt connected to the leading position occupied by the Netherlands in medical science in Europe in the early modern period. The ...

As part of the show, he will be dressing up as a plague doctor in public places. The Human Condition, featuring 22 paintings at the Leith Gallery, finishes on 30 April. A plague doctor was a ...