however, the battle of anghiari is not lost to us entirely.copies of the painting and some of the preliminary sketches for it have come down to us. from copies made at the time, rubens created a work reminiscent of leonardo's conception. and so did rustici, the sculptor with whom leonardo lived for a time during his stay in florence. in 1513 leonardo went to rome, but the three following years were the most tragic of his life. michelangelo was at the peak of his success. the ceiling of the sistine chapel was his masterpiece. raphael's work was equally celebrated, and bramante the architect was working on the completion of saint peter's cathedral. but there were no commissions at the vatican for leonardo. leo x, a medici pope, chose to ignore him as a man who never completed anything, as a man who thinks of the end of the project before he even begins it. one is tempted to see this period in leonardo's life in terms of the only painting of his, an early one, which hangs in the vatican, the saint jerome. in this picture the saint is alone and ag