Philip III of Spain - San Diego, CA
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N 32° 43.894 W 117° 09.142
11S E 485723 N 3621539
Located on the facade of San Diego's Museum of Man in Balboa Park.
Waymark Code: WMR6P9
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/17/2016
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This apparently life-sized or slightly larger bust of Spanish King Phillip III as a young to middle-aged man with a thin face an a beard. He wears a high-collared ruffled shirt.
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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"Philip III of Spain (Spanish: Felipe III «el piadoso»; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain (as Philip III in Castile and Philip II in Aragon) and Portugal (Portuguese: Filipe II).
A member of the House of Habsburg, Philip III was born in Madrid to King Philip II of Spain and his fourth wife and niece Anna, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and Maria of Spain. Philip III later married his cousin Margaret of Austria, sister of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. Although also known in Spain as Philip the Pious,[1] Philip's political reputation abroad has been largely negative – an 'undistinguished and insignificant man,' a 'miserable monarch,' whose 'only virtue appeared to reside in a total absence of vice,' to quote historians C. V. Wedgwood, R. Stradling and J. H. Elliott.[2] In particular, Philip's reliance on his corrupt chief minister, the Duke of Lerma, drew much criticism at the time and afterwards. For many, the decline of Spain can be dated to the economic difficulties that set in during the early years of his reign. Nonetheless, as the ruler of the Spanish Empire at its height and as the king who achieved a temporary peace with the Dutch (1609–21) and brought Spain into the Thirty Years' War (1618–48) through an (initially) extremely successful campaign, Philip's reign remains a critical period in Spanish history."