back in the days of rembrandt back in the time of old jan steen all of them giants of shadow and light but no one was like vermeer some paintings smell of joy and sweat some paintings plain look so fine some paintings are sad and passionate but vermeer sends a chill up your spine yeah vermeer sends a chill up your spine vermeer was eerie vermeer was strange he had a more modern colour range as if born in another age like maybe a hundred or so years ago what s this a ghost in the gallery great scot the martians are here these strange little paintings next to the others no one was like vermeer vermeer was eerie vermeer was weird he had his own way of doing things with the paintings from another era another era