Being slightly odd, I find medieval religious artworks to be intriguing and interesting because of how important they would have likely been to their owners or the congregations of the time. These two polychrome statues, made of linden wood, are in the museum and they think that they date to around 1410.
This is St. Peter with his keys and book with some effort made here to show his dignified drapery and a kindly, albeit now slightly weathered, face.
And here’s St. James the Greater with his scallop shell and walking staff, inspiring countless generations to go on pilgrimages and come back home with a shell. I’m not sure quite what look the sculptor was going for here, James looks like he’s just walked 90 miles of an LDWA 100, but there we go.
Bearing in mind that they’re over 600 years old, they’re still in rather good condition and retain a fair chunk of their original colour. There’s a warmth to these characters, I wouldn’t go quite as far to say that they’re almost cartoony, but they do have a warm and fluffy feel to them. They would have once been part of an altarpiece, but that element has been lost to history.