Palazzo Pianetti
# 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
