Palazzo Pianetti, Rococo palace in Jesi, Italy

Palazzo Pianetti is a Rococo palace in Jesi, a town in the Marche region, with a three-story facade marked by symmetrical windows and ornate stone detailing. Inside, a series of gallery rooms display artworks and historical collections tied to the region.

Cardolo Maria Pianetti, architect to Charles VI of Habsburg, drew up the first design for a family residence in the Terravecchia area outside Jesi's walls. The definitive project went to the Jesi painter-architect Domenico Luigi Valeri, who began building in 1748; the facade on via XV Settembre was designed by a Bolognese pupil of Alfonso Torreggiani. In 1901 the palace was ceded to the Tesei family.

The Pinacoteca Civica, on the palace's first floor, holds the core of the collection: Lorenzo Lotto's Deposition (1512), the Madonna of the Roses (1526), three predellas from the altarpiece of St Lucy (1532) and the Visitation (1531-35), painted for the churches of San Francesco al Monte and San Floriano. Works by Guercino, Carlo Maratta and Francesco Trevisani hang alongside them.

The palace stands on Via XV Settembre, just outside the old walls in the Terravecchia area west of the centre. The ground floor holds the archaeological museum in the former stables, the Pinacoteca is on the first floor and the contemporary gallery on the second. The 76-metre Stucco Gallery links the building to the walled Italian garden.

The Aeneid paintings are not in a single room: they cover the vaulted ceilings of six consecutive rooms, the Stanze di Enea, between the Galleria degli Stucchi and the main facade. Carlo Paolucci and Placido Lazzarini painted them in tempera between 1781 and 1786, working from engravings in a Vatican Library manuscript of the Aeneid.