This work investigates, by a trans-historical perspective, how the Bolognese architect Antônio José Landi (1713-1791) managed models from Italian ornamental matrices of different temporalities and stylistic traditions in his drawings for the Residence and Administration of the Grão-Pará’s Governors’ (in Belém, Brazil), designed between 1759 and 1767, in the imagetic operation of his pathosformel. A strict selection of two plans are analyzed in this work, containing drawing of doors and windows in elevation, executed by Landi in Brazil, part of the collection of design drawings for the edification, comparing to 50 engravings executed as the architect’s professional exercise in Italy. These engravings compose an image collection made by the drawings of highlighted Italian artists of the 16th to 18th century, surviving images that Landi chose as his references to be operated on the constitution of his own design identity.