Traduire le sacré dans la peinture ottomane à travers Mon nom est Rouge d’Orhan Pamuk

The novel Mon nom est Rouge addresses the sacred and the profane in Ottoman painting toward the end of the sixteenth century. Miniaturists are ­commissioned to create a book that will ­contain a portrait of the Sultan done in the Italian style; however, Italian painting is ­considered profane. This article scrutinizes how the discourse of the sacred is ­constructed in the original text and in the French translation.