Question

An artist from this city included the inscription “Closeness to the beloved, healing to the heart” in a painting that may have been inspired by a cartoon in Le Tour de Monde critiquing a slow bureaucracy. That artist from this city led excavations at the Sidon necropolis and unearthed the Alexander Sarcophagus. This city’s Pera Museum contains a painting (15[1])which depicts (15[1])a hodja in a red gown observing the title animals, known as The (*) Tortoise Trainer. Artists in this city (10[1])developed a style of depicting jagged leaves (10[1])alongside flowers known as saz. (10[2])Rulers in this city signed their names (10[1])using elaborate (10[1])monograms (10[2])known (10[1])as tughras. (10[4])Six (10[2])crowns appear above an arch (-5[1])in Gentile Bellini’s portrait of a ruler (10[1])from this city. (10[1])A building in this city was nicknamed for the color of its Iznik (10[2])tiling. For 10 points, name this home city of Osman Hamdi Bey, (10[1])the capital of the Ottoman Empire. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Istanbul [or Konstantiniyye]
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