Poems on Pre-Existing Works of Art

I'm posting this in the hopes that LitNetters who are following a current topic in "Poetry Games and Contests" --
"Poems Inspired by Paintings" -- might find the following background information useful.

Ekphrasis is the umbrella term for works of art whose subjects are pre-existing works of art (usually in a different form.)

The subset of poems inspired by works of art is large. Perhaps the most famous is this one by Keats.


Other notable ekphrastic poems include a famous offering by W. H. Auden.

Here's another "take" on the very same painting from Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams.


And finally, Wallace Stevens reacts to a famous Picasso work.



If you can think of any other notable poems based on works of art, please post them on this thread.

For Our Lady of the Rocks, by Leonardo Da Vinci
-Dante Gabriel Rossetti

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/5-1848.raw.html

There are dozens of poems inspired by the work of the American artist, Joseph Cornell. perhaps my favorite is the collection of poems/meditations by Charles Simic, entitled Dime-Store Alchemy:

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19893