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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 7804286, member: 57463&quot;]That&#039;s cute, a funny non-sequitur. The Baroque era ended with the advent of the Classical era. Most histories give the dates as 1600-1750 for Baroque and are not so precise for Classical (1750 to 1820 or 1830). See for example: </p><p><a href="https://www.naxos.com/education/brief_history.asp" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.naxos.com/education/brief_history.asp" rel="nofollow">https://www.naxos.com/education/brief_history.asp</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Vermont Public Radio sez: &quot;The death of J. S. Bach in 1750 has traditionally been regarded as the end of the Baroque Period. The well-known Classical era of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven is said to have begun in 1775.&nbsp; The transitional, 25 year period between is known as Rococo.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I look at broad cultural trends. While music, plastic arts and painting can lead or lag literature and science, they tend to all go together. 1775 carries a lot of meaning. And as for Romantic, I look to Beethoven as the transition: early Classical, later Romantic. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see the same trends in science. Newton&#039;s method--though not Newton himself; he was dead--dominated the &quot;Classical&quot; era. I do not know an easy date for the &quot;Romantic&quot; period of science, but there was a transition with the life of Gauss who took Newtonian mathematics as far as it could go while at the same time physics was grappling with Hertz and Maxwell.</p><p><br /></p><p>In politics we see same things. The American Revolution launched the &quot;classical&quot; era. But nationalism and eventually imperialism were the &quot;Romantic&quot; reaction of the 1830s to perhaps 1871. </p><p><br /></p><p>To bring this around to a topic closer to home, it would be hard for me to think of a Romantic coin versus a Classical. Numismatic art is classical. Period. We are so bankrupted by it that we call the Mercury Dime, Standing Liberty Quarter, and Walking Liberty Half Dollar the &quot;Renaissance of American coinage&quot; but the word &quot;Renaissance&quot; implies that something great came first, then there was a lull, then a rebirth. Nothing like that happened. All that happened was that American coinage fell deeper into the Classical chasm dug by the Chicago Exposition of 1892.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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