The Image of the Artist in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Irving Stone’s The Agony and Ecstasy

This paper examines the influence of Renaissance themes and techniques in art on miniaturist painting Istanbul shaping Michelangelo’s attitude to sculptor Italy. The clash between Eastern Western is part conflict Orhan Pamuk’s My Name Red. novel set sixteenth-century main characters are miniaturists who inherited Persian style painting. people were very religious Muslim felt unconfident constantly tortured about their paintings. Artists considered trying imitate God create own perception world. commissioned adopt Venetian with its emphasis lifelike individuality. Consequently they suffer whether creative work blasphemous, or not. Red juxtaposed Irving Stone’s biographical Agony Ecstasy. approximately same time that events took place It concerns life Florentine painter Michelangelo. study cultural atmosphere determined approach art. also addresses how religion has been source inspiration for themes, consequently it was medium through which he presented his version man. Both novels examined according relation humanism religion.