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He copied many known works, especially by Venetian artists, but the original he copied here has eluded identification. It might have been by Jacopo Bassano (1510–1592), an artist renowned for landscapes and genre scenes. Among the suggested subjects are <EM>Sleeping Apostles</EM> and <EM>The Parable of the Tares</EM> (in Jesus’s parable, a farmer’s enemy sows tares, a weed, among wheat seeds while the farmer sleeps, but the wheat will be harvested and the tares destroyed—a metaphor for the Last Judgment). 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