Editing Raphael (section)

==Painting materials==
Raphael painted several of his works on wood support (''[[Madonna of the Pinks]]'') but he also used canvas (''[[Sistine Madonna]]'') and he was known to employ drying oils such as [[linseed oil|linseed]] or [[walnut oil]]s. His palette was rich and he used almost all of the then available pigments such as [[ultramarine]], [[lead-tin-yellow]], [[carmine]], [[vermilion]], [[madder lake]], [[verdigris]] and [[ochres]]. In several of his paintings ([[Ansidei Madonna]]) he even employed the rare [[brazilwood]] lake, metallic powdered [[gold]] and even less known metallic powdered [[bismuth]].<ref>Roy, A., Spring, M., Plazzotta, C. 'Raphael's Early Work in the National Gallery: Paintings before Rome'. ''National Gallery Technical Bulletin'' Vol. 25, pp. 4–35</ref><ref>[http://colourlex.com/paintings/paintings-painter/italian-painters/ Italian painters] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315131925/http://colourlex.com/paintings/paintings-painter/italian-painters/ |date=March 15, 2016 }} at ColourLex</ref>