This painting is called A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms. It was painted by Pieter Aertsen in 1551. Although it appears to be a secular still life, this painting, like many of Aertsen's other paintings, had a religious theme. The slaughtered animals in the foreground represent death of a religious believer. The human figures in the background are the Holy Family. Aertsen's inverts what most people would expect to be the foreground and background of this picture. The meat is painted in vivid, sensual detail to which the Holy Family is merely a backdrop.
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