Salvador - Nossa Senhora do Monte Serrat

The church of the Benedictine monastery of Nossa Senhora do Monte Serrat is thought to have been designed by the Italian architect Baccio do Filicaia. The high altar came from the monastery of São Bento in Salvador.

The church has a statue of "St Peter Repentant" which is attributed to the Benedictine monk Agostinho da Piedade and dated to 1640. The power and the tension expressed in this work make it one of the masterpieces of Brazilian sculpture. Another item of particular interest is a painted ex-voto of 1749 by an unknown artist, an iconographic document of great importance: it is a regular narrative in pictures, depicting the adventures of a man traveling in Brazil and illustrating the costumes of that period.