{"id":3815,"date":"2017-05-27T11:21:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/art-hotel-florence\/"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:38:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T09:38:06","slug":"art-hotel-florence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/art-hotel-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"An Art Hotel in Florence Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco"},"content":{"rendered":"

A coffee ‘da ritti’ with the artist Silvio Loffredo<\/strong><\/h4>\n

<\/p>\n

Today I will tell you a story that every art lover in Florence<\/strong> will enjoy. Actually, I think it would attract the attention of all people who appreciate 20th century paintings and that are searching for one more reason to spend a weekend in Florence, maybe at the art Hotel in Florence Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk about Silvio Loffredo<\/strong>, a post-expressionist artist born in France who, in 1940, chose to settle in Florence<\/strong>, becoming one of the most important artistic and cultural points of reference of the city<\/strong>. Loffredo exposed his works all around the world, New York, London and Paris among the numerous cities that had the privilege of hosting him from the post-war years onwards.<\/p>\n

Knowing that, you will now understand how proud I am that one of his works, Il Battistero (Baptistery)<\/strong>, was one of the first paintings in our collection to be exposed at the art Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco of Florence<\/strong>. As soon as we purchased it at the Galleria Il Ponte<\/strong>, we couldn\u2019t wait for it to be delivered. Days passed but nothing was delivered<\/strong>. We called the gallery and they told us that the artist was adjusting the work in order for the colours to be more vivid.<\/p>\n

We waited for more than a month. Once dried, the painting<\/strong> was hung at the entrance of the hotel to our great satisfaction, considering that the final adjustment of Loffredo<\/strong> enhanced one of the features that had struck us the moment we made our choice : its chromaticism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n
\"Loffredo<\/div>\n

A few months later I was informed by our concierge of a very peculiar fact: an old man<\/strong>, in the mornings, would have a look around the ground floor of the hotel, stopping a while in front of the Baptistery of Loffredo<\/strong>. Once he had finished his tour, he would politely say goodbye and leave.<\/p>\n

You won\u2019t believe it, but one day I arrived at the hotel very early in the morning and in the hallway I got the chance to meet this nice old man who turned out to be the artist himself, Loffredo! I asked if I could offer him a coffee, but he refused, very shy and reserved as he was. <\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

We didn\u2019t see him again for two months at least. When I finally saw him again I was happy to hear him say \u201cIs your offer of coffee still valid?<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

From then on, once I got to know that Loffredo was a client of the bank in front of our hotel, it became a habit for me and him to get a coffee together ‘da ritti’<\/strong>, the coffee that you drink standing<\/strong>, as we were real Florentines, having a lovely chat and admiring the Baptistery, such a pleasant presence in our art collection.<\/p>\n

When I think of how we first met, by chance, and how we would often meet afterwards it reminds me of a phrase that someone once said: \u201c Shyness is just the side effect of a precious gift that has to be appreciated and protected: sensitivity\u201d<\/em>. And Silvio Loffredo never lacked this essential gift.<\/p>\n

\n

I wait for you, Alessandro Bargiacchi <\/p>\n

Would you like to admire the Baptistery and other works of contemporary art? Reserve your room<\/strong><\/a> here for a weekend in Florence at the art Hotel Il Guelfo Bianco! Info: info@ilguelfobianco.it<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A coffee ‘da ritti’ with the artist Silvio Loffredo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[339],"tags":[162,169],"yst_prominent_words":[3031,3032,3033,3034,2541,3036,753,1516,755,2832,2833,2834,1517,1518,3037,3038,3039,3040],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3815"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilguelfobianco.it\/zh-hant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}