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Turner, menteur magnifique. Epigraphie Religion Reading the Amduat today isWith its provocative title borrowed from the expression of a friend of the famous landscape artist, this monographic essay on Turner immediately places the famous landscape artist in a free relationship with appearances. For "the magnificent liar", the imitation of the world was less a question of fidelity than of the ability to transmute the visible into color and light. This personal and exalted vision of the world, which made Turner (1775 1851) the