Medieval and Renaissance Music Band
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If someone had asked me and my friends in the years 1990-2000 when and where we would have liked to live, one of the options would have been the years 1960 – ’70, in California, in full Hippie motion, for walks through San Francisco with flowers in our hair, for Monterey and Woodstock, to see […]
According to the Chinese calendar, the year 2021 is that of the Metal Ox. For Europeans, cattle, for example the ox, could have negative connotations, although it is not mandatory. Let’s remember the famous ox head from the coat of arms of the Principality of Moldova, which symbolizes power, being associated with the sun, moon […]
Line of Duty is a police television series produced by the BBC over several seasons, which began in 2012. I borrowed this title in a playful, postmodern context. In fact, the duty that Nomen Est Omen has assumed is to promote medieval music, not to reduce crime. Our means are, in fact, exclusively cultural. We […]
The next picture, which was taken by our colleague Valentin Florea in the Council Tower in Sibiu, represents from a visual point of view both a composition in red and black developed along a central axis of symmetry, as well as a collective portrait. The image was selected for a future photographic exhibition made by […]
Sometimes, when we look at Renaissance portraits of young ladies and gentlemen, we are enchanted by their beauty. Beyond the physiognomic features and the elegant costumes, surely in line with reality, the distinguished characters often seem “cosmetized”. A legitimate question is whether the painters arranged them from the brush or whether they looked exactly like […]
Ardud is a place where the past meets the present under the aegis of continuity and dynamics. With a history attested to more than eight centuries, something has always happened here, something relevant from a social, cultural, anthropological point of view. The medieval festival organized in the beautiful Fortress of Ardud, the artistic creation camps […]
Nomen Est Omen associates the end of summer with the medieval festival in Sibiu, Transylvanian Fortresses, in which has participated about fifteen times until 2019. The light is special at this time of year, which is why in the band’s album there are many interesting pictures from the mentioned event. Beyond the subject(s), the camera […]