Authentic 16th century plague doctor mask, preserved over the years
This was the first design of the Plague Doctor’s mask. During medieval Europe, there were two main theories of how diseases were spread and contracted: the Four Humors theory, and the Miasma theory.
This mask was designed to fight against the Miasma theory. This theory of disease believed that people got sick from “bad air”, and so what this mask’s long nose was designed to do was the wearers would put pleasant smelling herbs and light then on fire to prevent Miasma from being inhaled by the wearer by “cleansing” the “bad air”.
📸 Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin
This was the first design of the Plague Doctor’s mask. During medieval Europe, there were two main theories of how diseases were spread and contracted: the Four Humors theory, and the Miasma theory.
This mask was designed to fight against the Miasma theory. This theory of disease believed that people got sick from “bad air”, and so what this mask’s long nose was designed to do was the wearers would put pleasant smelling herbs and light then on fire to prevent Miasma from being inhaled by the wearer by “cleansing” the “bad air”.
📸 Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin
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Roman marble Figure of a baby Satyr playing with an oversized Theater Mask of Silenus.
* Imperial, ca. 1st c. AD. Private collection. Restorations by Alessandro Algardi, 1628.
* Imperial, ca. 1st c. AD. Private collection. Restorations by Alessandro Algardi, 1628.