During the middle ages, Europe had two identities, Protestants and the Catholics. Protestant artists painted an occasional scene from the bible and more often hen not painted scenes of ordinary individuals in everyday activities, and visual scenes of nature. Protestants believed that man could com edire3ctley to God through the finished work of Christ. Another idea also held a part in the coming of different styles of art. This idea was the separation of the Sacred and the Secular. Protestants realized that this division was artificial and that God created individuals in His image and all of our activities should be done to His glory. Catholics however, did not shore this point of view with the Protestants. They believed art had to have religious or sacred content among its origins. Catholic artists painted common biblical scenes, such as ideal looking saints and images of Mary, and Jesus to which they gave reverence because they believed these images would bring them closer to God. Catholic counter-reformation ruled that art should ne easily understood and that music had to be accessible and intelligible and that literature should celebrate religious values. It has been said that the Catholic counter-reformation fueled emotional embrace of the spiritual world, seen especially in sculpture and paintings. There is no doubt that these two worldly veiws clashed during the Baroque Ages creating art that focused on different themes and samples of ideas that had tremendous consequences to the lives of these artists during the Baroque