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 which depicts a hodja in a red gown observing the title animals, known as The (*) Tortoise Trainer. Artists in this city developed a style of depicting jagged leaves alongside flowers known as saz. Rulers in this city signed their names using elaborate monograms known as tughras. Six crowns appear above an arch in Gentile Bellini’s portrait of a ruler from this city. A building in this city was nicknamed for the color of its Iznik tiling. For 10 points, name this home city of Osman Hamdi Bey, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. ■END■
ANSWER: Istanbul [or Konstantiniyye]
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