Alvesgaspar

Joaquim Alves Gaspar, Lisboa, Portugal

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The Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa wrote that Newton's binomial theorem was as beautiful as the Venus de Milo.

I would like to add another masterpiece to the pair: Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue: [1]
I can't resist putting an alternative: Beethoven's last piano sonata: [2]
And yet another one (so beautiful that hurts, or maybe I'm becoming soft with age): Chopin's Étude in c-sharp minor: [3]
And also this sublime Agnus Dei from Bach's Mass in b minor (the boss, as Jebulon wrote: [4]

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Selected featured pictures

Image 1Hoverfly on a leaf of oleander
Image 2Stained-glass window in the ceiling of the Great Hall, Library of Congress
Image 3The tower of Belém, Lisbon
Image 4Glazed tiles
Image 5BT Tower, London
Image 6Dome of St Peter's cathedral, Rome
Image 7Blue flower of Chicorium intybus
Image 8Tachnind fly
Image 9Helsinki Lutheran Cathedral
Image 10Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa, Portugal
Image 11Colombo shopping center
Image 12Painted Lady butterfly
Image 13Young male cat
Image 14Spring Alentejo country view
Image 15Hoverfly on flower
Image 16Pair of Fuschia flowers
Image 17Reflections in a Chigago building
Image 18Playing in the waves
Image 19Female Vagrant Emperor
Image 20Wheat field after the harvest, Portugal
Image 21River Tagus viewed from Portas do Sol, Santarém
Image 22Sunset at Porto Covo
Image 23Monastery of Alcobaça, Portugal
Image 24The photographer. Where is he going: towards us or away from us?
Image 25Stormy day at Costa da Caparica
Image 26Flower and leaves of Pallenis maritima
Image 27Orthetrum coerulescens dragongly
Image 28Seagull in flight
Image 29Juvenile Barn Swallows
Image 30Twin flowers of Lantana camara with unexpected guest
Image 31Hoverfly on flower
Image 32Poster of white flowers
Image 33A new wasp colony
Image 34Apartment buildings in Chicago
Image 35Flowers of Bugloss
Image 36Bumblebee collecting nectar
Image 37Sash windows in Porto Novo, Portugal
Image 38Skyline in Tampa, Florida
Image 39Sunset at Porto Covo
Image 40Hoverfly feeding on pollen
Image 41Red velvet mites on a Convolvulus arvenvis flower
Image 42Windows in Castelo Branco, Portugal
Image 43Tomb at Santa Maria del Popolo church, Rome
Image 44Speckled Wood butterfly
Image 45Banded garden spider
Image 46Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow
Image 47Basílica de San Francisco el Grande, Madrid
Image 48Stairway in Mosanto Castle, Portugal
Image 49THree stages of an Opium Poppy
Image 50Palácio Nacional de Mafra, Portugal
Image 51Seagull yelling
Image 52European beekiller wasp
Image 53Dome of Sagrada Família Cathedral, Barcelona
Image 54Lusitano horse
Image 55Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow
Image 56Dormition Cathedral, Moscow
Image 57Hoverfly on a flower
Image 58View of Ghent, Belgium
Image 59Female Red-veined darter dragonfly
Image 60Young paper wasp queen guarding her nest and eggs
Image 61Typical house at Porto Covo, Portuga
Image 62Two chimneys, Porto Covo
Image 63Stormy sea, Porto Covo
Image 64Bridge over river Lia, Ponte da Barca, Portugal
Image 65Three stages of a Common Poppy
Image 66Beach and village of Nazaré
Image 67a poster of Aceraceae flowers
Image 68The sea at Porto Covo
Image 69Running into the light, S. Martinho do Porto
Image 70Antiphonary in the Convent of Tibães
Image 71Hoverfly hovering
Image 72Paper wasp laying an egg
Image 73Weevil
Image 74Flower and leaves of Lantana camara
Image 75A yellow flower of Coleostephus myconis
Image 76Triplets flowers
Image 77Solitary bee feeding
Image 78Breaking wave with ships, Porto Covo
Image 79Inflorescence of Freesia leichtlinii
Image 80Surfer
Image 81Stormy sea at Porto Covo, Portugal
Image 82Storm in Porto Covo
Image 83Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp
Image 84Playing in the surf
Image 85Solitary bee
Image 86Anthidium bee
Image 87Poster of coloured flowers
Image 88Biblioteca Joanina, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Image 89Using a marine sextant
Image 90Batalha monastery, Portugal
Image 91View of Tampa, Florida
Image 92The monster
Image 93Portrait of Inês
Image 94Desert locust
Image 95Marmelade fly
Image 96Using a vernier caliper
Image 97St Peter's basilica, Rome
Image 98View of Prague
Image 99False blister beetle on a spike
Image 100Goldenrod Crab spider waiting for prey
Image 101Room of the ambassadors, Alcázar of Seville
Image 102Hen running
Image 103Wasp blowing a bubble
Image 104Bridge over river Lia, Ponte da Barca, Portugal
Image 105The missing square
Image 106Fly making bubbles
Image 107Legend of the Miraculous Sacrement, Brussels
Image 108Crochet table-cloth
Image 109Green lacewing
Image 110Pot-bellied pigs
Image 111Male paper wasp