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 which depicts a hodja (15[1])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 (10[1])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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