Our Lady of Grace Cathedral, Belém

A few years later it was transferred in the current Largo da Sé, where a poor, simple building was constructed.

The building to this point was designed in the baroque style common to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil.

Landi designed a baroque-rococo wood altar; it framed an image of Our Lady of Grace by the Pedro Alexandrino de Carvalho (1729-1810).

He led a renovation of the interior of the Cathedral in the 1870s, primarily under a group of Italian artisans working in Belém and Manaus.

They used Italian materials in the renovation and introduced techniques such as "scaiolla", a painting imitating marble, later known as escaiola in Portuguese.

A new of high altar of marble and alabaster came from Rome as a gift from Pope Pius IX, in the neoclassical style by Leca Caprini in Italy.

Other Italians such as Giovanni Capranesi (1852-1921) and Silvio Centofanti worked in Belém and Manaus until the early 20th century.

[5] The interior of the church is elaborate, with ten side altars, 28 bronze candelabra, stained glass windows, and a French organ from the 19th century.

View of interior, Our Lady of Grace Cathedral
Baroque pulpits designed by Giuseppe Antonio Landi (João Landi), Our Lady of Grace Cathedral