Religion provides the subject matter and content for art. Because religions often use art to graphically promote doctrines, they promote art in terms of human, material and financial resources, provide a stage for many artists to practice, and objectively it plays a practical role in promoting the development of art. However, religion also hindered the development of art to a certain extent, such as the ecclesiastical literature in medieval Europe, which was reduced to the service of religious “handmaidens” and was severely damaged, greatly hindering the development of literature and art in medieval Europe. Art is a figurative understanding of the world, a reflection of the world and the practical activities of the man himself in the form of beauty, and a variety of sensual experiences. Both the irrationality of religion and the aesthetics of artistic images became the expression of universal human feelings, expressing different aspects of human feelings. Religion uses art to express and propagate its doctrine, consolidate and expand its influence, and art nurtures and develops in religion, enriching its content and form. But we cannot say from this that religion and art are the same; there is a fundamental difference between them.