Question

A mosque in this city that lacks a courtyard and minarets uses sunlight to create the illusion of a peacock at the yellow center of its “seven-color” tiled dome. 18 wooden columns support the talar balcony of a six-story palace in this city that features a music hall with stucco cut-outs (-5[1])resembling bottles and instruments. Jean Chardin described the architecture of this city, where an early version of aperiodic girih tiling decorated the brick Darb-e Islam shrine. This city contains a mosque with a four-iwan plan (10[1])with white flowers (-5[1])and gold vines in the muqarnas at its turquoise (10[1])entrance. (-5[1])The Loftallah Mosque, ‘Ali Qapu Palace, and Shah Mosque (10[1])border (10[1])this city’s (10[1])Naqsh-e (10[1])Jahān (10[1])Square. Reza Abbasi led this city’s (10[1])school of miniaturists, which supplanted (-5[1])schools (-5[1])from Herāt and Tabriz. For 10 points, name this Iranian city (10[1]-5[1])developed by the Safavids. (10[2])■END■ (10[6]0[3])

ANSWER: Isfahan [or Esfahân] (The Darb-e Islam is also called the Darb-e Imam.)
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