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