It has not yet been established who these two figures are meant to represent. One common explanation is that they are characters from ancient Greek mythology, Pandora and Epimetheus. Epimetheus was Pandora’s husband. He opened her famous box and so was responsible for bringing illness, plague and misfortune to mankind. Representations of the entirely nude human form are uncommon in Spanish art of the Renaissance. This is the reason some experts believe it is unlikely that the statues were intended to be mythological Greek–that is heathen–characters, and prefer to see them as Adam and Eve.