Copy after the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci. Peter Paul Rubens, ca 1603 The Battle of Anghiari (1505), a planned painting by Leonardo da Vinci for the Salone dei Cinquecento in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio, was to depict four men on war horses struggling for a standard at the 1440 Battle of Anghiari. The central scene is best known through a 1603 drawing by Peter Paul Rubens, based on a 1553 engraving by Lorenzo Zacchia, which captured the intense emotions and power of Leonardo's original vision. In 2012, Maurizio Seracini's team claimed to have found evidence of the painting behind a section of Giorgio Vasari's fresco, but the search was halted later that year due to conflicts, and in 2020, some art historians concluded the work had never been executed. Credit: Louvre