Apollo and Daphne - Pollaiolo

Weirdly enough, 'shark' as in 'loan shark' is older than 'shark' as in 'fish'. Originally sharks were called either 'dogfish' or 'haye'. The first person recorded to have used 'shark' in the fish sense was Thomas Beckington, Bishop of Bath and Wales.
Posting this mainly for the landscape in the background.
Practically everything I know about art history comes from books, so it was years before I realized that this was in a church, or had any idea of how big or small it was, or that a lot of these were close to one another.
Although the Muslims in medieval Spain left behind an expansive literature, little of it has been translated into English (although quite a bit has been translated into Spanish and French). Not only is this a readable and interesting history, but the translator has included a lot of well-chosen excerpts of other works in the appendix. It also deals extensively with the Almohads and the last Emirate of Granada, which both tend to be neglected in English-language scholarship.