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