Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Historic Areas of Istanbul' has mentioned 'Art' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| Despite efforts to make Ankara Turkey's cultural heart, Istanbul had the country's primary institution of art until the 1970s. | WIKI |
| [226] When additional universities and art journals were founded in Istanbul during the 1980s, artists formerly based in Ankara moved in. | WIKI |
| Modern art museums, including xc4xb0stanbul Modern, the Pera Museum, Sakxc4xb1p Sabancxc4xb1 Museum and SantralIstanbul, opened in the 2000s to complement the exhibition spaces and auction houses that have already contributed to the cosmopolitan nature of the city. | WIKI |
| Coinciding with this cultural reemergence was the establishment of the Istanbul Festival, which began showcasing a variety of art from Turkey and around the world in 1973. | WIKI |
| Its early incarnations were aimed at showcasing Turkish visual art, and it has since opened to international artists and risen in prestige to join the elite biennales, alongside the Venice Biennale and the Sxc3xa3o Paulo Art Biennial. | WIKI |
| Istanbul is also home to several conservatories and art schools, including Mimar Sinan Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1882. | WIKI |
| Strategically located on the Bosphorus peninsula between the Balkans and Anatolia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Istanbul was successively the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire and has been associated with major events in political history, religious history and art history for more than 2,000 years. | UNESCO |
| Thus, the 6,650 meter terrestrial wall of Theodosius II with its second line of defence, created in 447, was one of the leading references for military architecture; Hagia Sophia became a model for an entire family of churches and later mosques, and the mosaics of the palaces and churches of Constantinople influenced both Eastern and Western art. | UNESCO |