title: Palazzo Pianetti
text: # Palazzo Pianetti
  
  The Palazzo Pianetti or Pianetti Tesei is a Rococo palace in the town of Jesi, region of Marche, Italy; it is presently used as the Civic Museum and exhibition space for Jesi.
  
  ## History
  
  The present structure was built in 1730, based on designs of Cardolo Maria Pianetti. The elaborate interior decorations with stucco and paint depict a variety of subjects and cycles. They include frescoes on stories of the Aeneid by Placido Lazzarini, the second floor stanza was decorated by the Florentine Bandinelli.
  
  ## Pinacoteca
  
  The adjacent building houses the civic picture gallery or Pinacoteca Civica.
  
  The most important works in the collection is a group of works by Lorenzo Lotto, completed 1512-1535 for the churches of San Francesco al Monte and San Floriano; these include the large altar-piece of the Deposition (1512); The Madonna of the Roses (1526), the three predellas of the altarpiece of St. Lucy, telling the story of her martyrdom (1532); and the Visitation (1531-35).
  
  As well as the above-mentioned works, the gallery contains paintings by:
  
  * Cristoforo Roncalli
  * Carlo Cignani
  * Giacomo del Po
  * Cristoforo Unterberger
  * Alessandro Tiarini
  * Antonio Sarti
  * Pietro Paolo Agabiti
  * Giuliano Presutti
  * Francesco Trevisani
  * Carlo Maratta
  * Domenico Luigi Valeri
  * Giovanni Battista Langetti
  * Guercino
  * Gerolamo Marchesi da Cotignola
  * Nicola di Maestro Antonio da Ancona
  * Francesco Albani
  * Orfeo Tamburi
  * Renato Guttuso
  * Valeriano Trubbiani
  