Tuesday. Mountain Fortress of Salzburg from the Southside

About two decades after the invention of lithography in Munich, Ferdinand Olivier, in Vienna, used the new printing medium to create an album of seven landscapes representing the days of the week, each a simple scene of daily life set against one of the majestic monuments of the Salzburg region. Recognizable religious allusions are combined with references to natural cycles—the times of day, the days of the week, the seasons of the year, and the ages of life. Each lithograph is a careful construction of light and shadow, using two stones to create three colors. Executed over a period of five years, from 1818 to 1823, Olivier’s album of lithographs is justly celebrated as one of the most beautiful sets of landscape prints ever made.