This is the first of the three separate (double-volume) publications covering Rubens' copies after sixteenth-century Italian artists, this section deals with Raphael and his school. The second will cover copies after Titian and North Italian artists, and the third will deal with copies after artists working in Central Italy and France. All three separate publications will be issued under the rubric: Part 26 (II) in the Corpus Rubenianum series. Part 26 (I), also listed in this database, deals with copies after German and Netherlandish artists. All the volumes are published under the aegis of the "Centrum voor de Vlaamse Kunst van de 16de en de 17de Eeuw," Antwerp.