This webpage shows different styles of masks, and demonstrates the purposes for which masks were worn in the late Middle Ages, as well as a few metaphorical depictions of masks.

For more links on masks and mask-making, click here; for Renaissance-era examples, see the inspiration for a 16th century mask.

• Leather masks from Novgorod, 12th-14th centuries (see Letters from Old Russia, State Historical Museum, and Birchbark Letters)
• Feast for the wedding of Fauvel, The Romance of Fauvel (BNF Fr. 146, fols. 34, 34v, and 36v), c. 1320
• The Romance of Alexander (Bodl. 264), 1338-1344, fols. 21v, 70r, 117v, and 181v
• Treason (with Envy and Criticism) in The Pilgrimage of Human Life (Bibl. Sainte-Geneviève 1130, fol. 55), c. 1367-1399
• The Final Section, Devoted to Methods of Casting from Cennini's Libro dell'Arte, early 15th century
• Guillaume de Digulleville and Envy (fol. 54) and Guillaume de Digulleville and Lust (fol. 66v), Pilgrimage of Human Life (BNF Fr. 376), second quarter of the 15th century
• Oval miniature showing a pair of horses, with driver, pulling a covered carriage containing a gentleman and a lady wearing a mask, Discours à Lesdiguiàres (British Library Harley 5256, fol. 22), 1597
• A dance at the time of the Carnival by Jan Harmensz Muller, 16th-17th century
• Zeus and Mercury at the dice-game, c. 1650-1675
• Alexander Peden's mask and wig, c. 1670s-1680s (detail; additional views 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7)