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