How did religion influence renaissance art and thought?

The way it influence art was through painters, their paintings reflected religious spiritually instead of painting a human individuality. The way it influence thought they often changed religions to learn the language of another so they could study the Bible from the points of view of other religions. That is how religion influenced both art and thought

They went to leyden, holland

It should be at the center of any map going vertically: the prime meridian, as it passes through greenwich,  england, is considered 0 degrees longitude