Located on the facade of San Diego's Museum of Man in Balboa Park, this apparently life-sized or slightly larger bust of Spanish King Charles V depicts him as a young man with a thin mustache and wearing a wide-brimmed hat which frames him almost as a halo. He has a high-collared blouse and a coat with many folds.
The Smithsonian Inventory informs us:
Piccirilli, Attilio, 1866-1945, sculptor.
Piccirilli, Furio, 1868-1949, sculptor.
Piccirilli, Horatio, 1872-1954, sculptor.
Piccirilli, Thomas, sculptor.
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"Charles V (French: Charles Quint; German: Karl V.; Spanish: Carlos I; Dutch: Karel V; Italian: Carlo V) [a] (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558), was a Duke of Burgundy and Holy Roman Emperor. He was ruler of both the Spanish Empire from 1516 and Holy Roman Empire from 1519, as well as of Habsburg Netherlands from 1506, until he voluntarily stepped down from these and other positions by a series of abdications between 1554 and 1556. Through inheritance, he brought together under his rule extensive territories in western, central, and southern Europe, and the Spanish colonies in the Americas and Asia. As a result, his domains spanned nearly four million square kilometers, and were the first to be described as "the empire on which the sun never sets".
Charles was the heir of three of Europe's leading dynasties: the Houses of Valois-Burgundy (Netherlands), Habsburg (Holy Roman Empire), and Trastámara (Spain). He inherited the Burgundian Netherlands and the Franche-Comté as heir of the House of Valois-Burgundy. From his own dynasty, the Habsburgs, he inherited Austria and other lands in central Europe. He was also elected to succeed his Habsburg grandfather, Maximilian I as Holy Roman Emperor, a title held by the Habsburgs since 1440. From the Spanish House of Trastámara, he inherited the crowns of Castile, which was in the process of developing a nascent empire in the Americas and Asia, and Aragon. The latter included a Mediterranean empire that extended to Southern Italy. Charles was the first king to rule Castile and Aragon simultaneously in his own right, and, as a result, is sometimes referred to as the first King of Spain.
The personal union, under Charles, of the Holy Roman Empire with the Spanish Empire resulted in the closest Europe would come to a universal monarchy in the post-classical era."