Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of the imagination in which the divine mmd of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dreamlike vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi—Diana's Mirror, as it was called by the ancients. (Frazer, 1957: 1)
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