In this essay I will discuss the relationship between the arts and the growing body of scientific knowledge during the Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo periods. Beginning with the Renaissance and then continuing on to the Baroque and Rococo periods, science and art were closely related. In the early 1500s, the renaissance period brought a new way of thinking about art that was contagious and spread throughout the land. In the early 1600s, the Baroque period brought more emotion to art and a less idealistic viewpoint was portrayed.