Which of the following playwrights created a work using the witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts, to symbolize the communist investigation undertaken by the Un-American Activities Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives?

Michelangelo is considered a Mannerist and High Renaissance artist. What is it about his paintings that characterize the Mannerist style?

a) his turbulent compositions b) his calm, balanced compositions c) his use of mythological themes d) the didactic nature of his paintings

Unlike the early Baroque period, the late Baroque—as exemplified in the

compositions of Bach and Handel—was not a time of innovation but of musical consolidation and refinement.

a. true b. false