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The Castor and Pollux group (also known as the San Ildefonso Group after San Ildefonso in Segovia Spain the location of the palace of La Granja at which it was kept until 1839) is an ancient Roman sculptural group of the 1st century AD now in the Museo del Prado Madrid.Drawing on 5th- and 4th-century BC Greek sculptures in the Praxitelean tradition such as the Apollo Sauroctonos and the Westmacott Ephebe and without copying any single known Greek sculpture it shows two idealised nude youths both wearing laurel wreaths.
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