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Musée Cernuschi

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Italian banker Enrico Cernuschi came to Paris for his Republican democratic ideals, only to be arrested during the 1871 Paris Commune; he subsequently decided to wait out the unrest by traveling the world—and collecting Asian art. On his return, he had a special mansion built on the edge of Parc Monceau to house his treasures, which include a two-story bronze Buddha from Japan. Cernuschi loved bronze, but he also had a stunning eye for everything from Neolithic pottery (3rd millennium BC) to funeral statuary, painted 8th-century silks, and contemporary paintings. /

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