Thanks all for responding... Hello Bob!
An ekphrastic poem doesn't have to be based on a real work of art--it would include, as Chris points out, Homer's description of the Shield of Achilles (and Auden's), Catullus' description of Ariadne, Virgil's description of the Daedelean gates, etc., etc.
"Leda and the Swan" would be a curiously convoluted case... as paintings would tend in their turn to take details from Ovid (where she is indeed supine), though that is only a few lines from the depiction (ekphrastic) of Arachne's tapestry. Whew.
Ovid, obviously, cannot be overestimated in his influence on paintings of mythological subjects.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" one of the all-time greatest ekphrastic poems.
Speaking of which, here's a little poem by Christopher Bakken from his "After Greece" which is in conversation with the Keats:
Terra Incognita
Phaestos, 17th.c. B.C.E.
Disc, you were buried so long we forgot
how to read: hieratic or hieroglyphic,
surely these doodads signify something.
From rim to center your brave little men
and large-breasted women leap backwards
among shields and beehive thingamabobs.
Who's chasing whom, where on earth, for what?
If only you were marble or hematite,
you might be venerable, sacred: but clay?
Foundling of fires unwilling to speak,
you make, along with us, companion carbon,
a common corporation of dust.
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