In some ways, the Renaissance turned the world, and man’s place in the world, upside down. In the years between the fall of Rome and the mid-14th century, the Catholic Church dominated Europe. The world was God’s engenderment and mankind was a sin-filled hitchhiker going along for the ide. Literacy was the special turf of the monks and truth was to be found mainly in the bible and the words of the pope. Around 1350 in Italy, a renaissance of art and conceptions which we call the Renaissance made its very first appearance. Attention commenced to shift from got to man, from heaven to earth, from astrology to reason, and from despair to optimism. Good examples of this change can be found in three different areas of expression and revelation- painting, literature, and astronomy