Rose -
Yes, Caravaggio might have painted ordinary people - but in an extraordinary, stylized manner that focused on the play of light and dark (chiaroscuro - and I hope I spelled that correctly), and the faces were often extraordinarily delicate and sensitive. My problems are that (a) he is so identified with Italy and the Renaissance in my mind that it seems the wrong reference for a poem on Barcelona, and (b) there is nothing "Spanish" about his painting, nothing that emulates the relative in-your-face boldness and simplicity that I think of with Spanish art. As I mentioned, it's a great depiction of a face, and a terrific rhyme - but not for a poem about Spain.
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