Works based on art

Ekphrasis or ecphrasis (from the Greek) is a rhetorical device indicating the written description of a work of art. It is a vivid, often dramatic, verbal description of a visual work of art, either real or imagined. Thus, "an ekphrastic poem is a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art." In ancient times, it might refer more broadly to a description of any thing, person, or experience. The word comes from the Greek ' and ', 'out' and 'speak' respectively, and the verb '''', 'to proclaim or call an inanimate object by name'.

Book by Tracy Chevalier

1819 poem by John Keats

thumb|right|250px|Loki strikes Þjazi with a rod in this picture from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. Haustlǫng (Old Norse: 'Autumn-long'; anglicized as Haustlöng) is a skaldic poem composed around the beginning of the 10th century by the Norwegian skald Þjóðólfr of Hvinir.

U.S. animated TV series (2001 to 2003), based on the poster(s) and 1998 picture book of the same name

right|thumb|250px|One of the decorations on Ragnarr's shield probably showed Thor's fishing trip. This illustration of the scene is from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript. Ragnarsdrápa (Old Norse: ‘Drápa about Ragnarr’) is a skaldic poem attributed to the oldest known skald, Bragi inn gamli (‘the old’) Boddason, who lived in the 9th century. Bragi describes the myths depicted on a decorated shield given to him by a certain Ragnar.

play by John Logan

right|thumb|200px|Thor goes fishing for Jörmungandr in this picture from an 18th-century [[Icelandic manuscript.]] Húsdrápa (Old Norse: 'House-Lay') is a skaldic poem partially preserved in the Prose Edda where disjoint stanzas of it are quoted. It is attributed to the skald Úlfr Uggason. The poem describes mythological scenes carved on kitchen panels. In the stanzas that have come down to us three such scenes are described.

opera by Enrique Granados

German poem, in: Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (1918)