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Constantinople

Basil Rathbone

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Constantinople
Armenian painter Ivan Aivazovsky's View of Constantinople by Moonlight (1846)
What had seemed the day before the dingiest of cities now took on a strange beauty, the beauty of unexpected horizons and tongues of grey water winding below cypress-studded shores. A man's temper has a lot to do with his appreciation of scenery.

John Buchan Greenmantle (1916)
Jean-Léon Gérôme: "A Muezzin Calling from the Top of a Minaret the Faithful to Prayer" (1879)

Other Constantinoples:

Theodora
The Orientalist Painters
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