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The Well-stocked Kitchen, with Jesus in the House of Martha and Mary in the Background, 1566. It is not the profusion of vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry and kitchenware displayed here by these domestic workers that forms the main theme of this painting.Jesus visiting Mary and Martha is shown almost as an aside in the distance. The contrast between foreground and background contains the moral of the painting: do not be seduced by worldly temptation.