# Philip II [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SANCHEZ COELLO, Alonso]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 115 x 93 cm ## Commentary After Charles V's abdication in 1556, Philip II became the most powerful monarch in the world. Although he did not inherit the Holy Roman Empire, the extent of his territories was even to surpass those of his father, thanks to Spain's expanding colonial empire in the New World and the East Indies. The image of Philip most familiar to posterity is the aloof, joyless, soberly clad figure transmitted by the various portraits of his court painter, Alonso Sánchez Coello. ## Related artworks - [Diego de Covarrubias]() - [Doña Juana, Princess of Portugal]() - [Infantas Isabel Clara Eugenia and Catalina Micaela]() - [Philip II Holding a Rosary]() - [Portrait of the Infanta Catalina Micaela]() - [Prince Don Carlos of Austria]() - [St Sebastian between St Bernard and St Francis]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()