Back Група Сан-Ільдэфонса Byelorussian Ildefonso-Gruppe German Ofrenda de Orestes y Pílades Spanish Ofrenda de Orestes e Pílades Galician Gruppo di sant'Ildefonso Italian Grupa z San Ildefonso Polish Группа Сан-Ильдефонсо Russian Kastor och Pollux-gruppen Swedish
| Castor and Pollux (San Ildefonso Group) | |
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| Year | 1st century AD |
| Type | White marble |
| Dimensions | 161 cm (63 in) |
| Location | Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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. The young men lean against each other, and to their left on an altar is a small female figure, usually interpreted as a statue of a female divinity. She holds a sphere, variously interpreted as an egg or pomegranate. The group is 161 cm high and is now accepted as portraying Castor and Pollux.