Italian sculptor (active 2nd half of the 20th century) Head of Silvanus with a wreath of pine trees White marble. Mounted with a rod on a cubic base of black, white-veined marble, bevelled at the top. Decorative head after the well-known ancient Roman original in the Museum Centrale Montemartini in Rome, discovered during the excavation of a large Roman private residence in the garden of the Villa Rivaldi during the construction of the Via dell'Impero (today Via dei Fori Imperiali) in 1932 (Capitoline Museums, Sculpture Inventory S 2304). Height of head approx. 28 cm; height of face approx. 59 cm. Italian sculptor active second half of the 20th century. Marble head of the God Silvanus crowned with pine after an ancient Roman original marble head found in 1932 (now in the Museum Centrale Montemartini in Rome). Black marble base.