He often collaborated with other artists on elaborate compositions which incorporated figures, landscape and animals. Jan the Younger operated a workshop which produced variations on the somewhat standardized motifs used by his father. The Museum's version of the Allegory of Air is strikingly similar to a painting of the same title by Jan the Elder now in the Louvre. It is full of visual examples and poems.
Artists combine real and imaginary objects to create fantasy painting.
Discuss the elements of fantasy that can be seen in the painting. For example, from the painting one can see children with wings, chariots in the air. A book on more advanced ideas for book-making can be borrowed from the Public Library. Discuss what is real and what is imagined. Books on the Surrealists and Dadaism can be borrowed from the Public Library.