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