Philip II

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Philip II, son of the emperor Charles V and Isabella of Portugal, born 1527, died 1598. He was invested by his father with the kingdoms of Naples and Sicily in 1554, and with the lordship of the Netherlands in 1555, and succeeded to the throne of Spain and its dependencies on the abdication of his father in 1556. This coin is a variant of the medio reales struck for the Duchy of Gueldres in Spain between 1555 and 1576.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The fifty thousand objects in the Museum's comprehensive and historically important collection of European sculpture and decorative arts reflect the development of a number of art forms in Western European countries from the early fifteenth through the early twentieth century. The holdings include sculpture in many sizes and media, woodwork and furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork and jewelry, horological and mathematical instruments, and tapestries and textiles. Ceramics made in Asia for export to European markets and sculpture and decorative arts produced in Latin America during this period are also included among these works.

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