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Targu Jiu and the Endless Column
When you think about Targu Jiu, you think about Constantin Brancusi and his famous masterpieces: The Table of Silence, The Gate of the Kiss, the Endless Column and Chairs' Alley. Brancusi's sculptures opened the way for modernist sculptors, due to their nature that combined complexity with simplicity.
Targu Jiu was first attested in 1406 and it's located on the river banks of Jiu, on the Southern Sub-Carpathians. Jiu's river bed has moved gradually from Delusorul Prejbei towards west and giving birth to three plateaus on which the actual city is located. This place, before Dacia was conquered by the Romans, was the heart of a Dacian village surrounded by forests. Some historians say that this village was a 'vicus', a trading place that gathered merchants from different locations of the country.
In the 15th century, the voivode of Valahia, Mircea cel Batran (Mircea the Elder), gave an order to the Tismana monastery and used the “Jiul” name for the first time. During this period, Targu Jiu appears in documents for the first time with the title of “burg”. Two centuries later, Targu Jiu became the capital of the Gorj county and had seen a lot of battles against the turks or even between local nobles.
How everything started for Brancusi
Moving on to more recent times, let's find out more about the sculptor that made Targu Jiu famous: Constantin Brancusi. He was born on February 19, 1876 in Hobita, a small village located in the proximity of Targu Jiu. His parents were really poor and during his childhood Brancusi took care of his family's flock of sheep. During this time, he developed his talent in wood carving, although he had no special education.
As he was beaten by his father and older brothers, he ran away from home when he was nine years old and did some menial jobs in the nearby city. At the age of 13, he went to Craiova to work at a grocery store. Brancusi spent here a few years of his life, and was financed by his employer to study at the Craiova School of Crafts. This happened when he was 18 years old, and during this time, Brancusi learned to read and write, developed even more his talent in sculpting and graduated in 1898 with honors.
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