Employing many different techniques throughout his career, Michelangelo produced a great variety of art works, including paintings, for example, in the Sistine Chapel, to sculpture, for example, the statue of David. (A) including paintings, for example, in the Sistine Chapel, to sculpture, for example, (B) including paintings, for example, in the Sistine Chapel, to sculpture, like (C) including paintings, such as those in the Sistine Chapel, and sculpture, as (D) ranging from paintings, such as those in the Sistine Chapel, to sculpture, such as (E) ranging from paintings, such as in the Sistine Chapel, and sculpture, such as Michelangelo’s techniques (A) Parallelism / Idiom ( including X...to Y ) (B) Parallelism / Idiom ( including X...to Y ) (C) Meaning ( as ) (D) CORRECT (E) Parallelism / Idiom ( ranging from X...and Y ) First glance A comma is just before the underline and you’re given two choices for the word just after that comma: including or ranging . This signals a modifier and a choice that you’ll have to make regarding the structure or meaning of that modifier. Issues (1) Parallelism / Idiom: including X...to Y After the comma, the sentence provides some examples of Michelangelo’s great variety of art works. The original sentence presents the two examples as including X...to Y . (A) including paintings, for example, in the Sistine Chapel, to sculpture, for example, the statue of David (B) including paintings, for example, in the Sistine Chapel to sculpture, like the statue of David (C) including paintings, such as those in the Sistine Chapel and sculpture, as the statue of David (D) ranging from paintings, such as those in the Sistine Chapel to sculpture, such as the statue of David (E) ranging from paintings, such as in the Sistine Chapel and sculpture, such as the statue of David It is acceptable to say including X and Y or ranging from X to Y , but including X to Y is not an idiom. Eliminate choices (A) and (B) for a faulty idiom . Choice (C) does use including X and Y . Choices (D) and (E) change the idiom entirely, to either ranging from X to Y or ranging from X and Y . The first form ( ranging from X to Y ) is an acceptable idiom, but ranging from X and Y is not correct. Eliminate choice (E) for a faulty idiom . (2) Parallelism Meaning: as While examining the idiom issue above, you might have spotted a couple of other issues within the X/Y parallelism that the idiom requires. Each X and Y element provide examples of that element; the most clear structure will make those examples parallel as well. Answers (A), (B), and (E) improperly pair the prepositional phrase in the Sistine Chapel with the noun the statue of David . Eliminate choices (A), (B), and (E). (Note: answer (B) also uses the word like to mean for example. In years past, this has been incorrect on the GMAT, but some recent problems have actually used like to mean for example in correct answers, so this is no longer considered incorrect.) Answer (C)’s examples are parallel but it uses such as to introduce the first example and as to introduce the second example. The word as by itself does not mean for example. Eliminate answer (C) for faulty word choice. The Correct Answer Correct answer (D) uses a proper idiom ( ranging from X to Y ). The examples are also in parallel noun form: those in the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David .

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To clarify, I am still a bit confused on what you mean by "Option A fails to maintain parallelism between the noun phrase “paintings” and the prepositional phrase “in the Sistine Chapel”; remember, two elements linked by a conjunction (“for example” in this case) must be parallel." In Choice D there still is "paintings" and then "in the Sistine Chapel"...
is it the "those" that builds the parallelism that was missing in choice A? --->replacing "paintings" with "those" --> paintings, such as [paintings] in the Sistine Chapel". Thank you again.

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To answer your query, yes; it is the inclusion of "those" that makes choice D parallel.

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