The fresco in the Spanish Chapel of Santa Maria Novella in Florence “forms the ‘educational creed’ of [Mason’s] House of Education.” As such, it is difficult to overemphasize the importance of this fresco. Because it was so significant to Charlotte Mason, it is essential to explore how Mason applied it, so that we can properly …
Charlotte Mason wrote that the fresco in the Spanish Chapel “forms the ‘educational creed’ of the House of Education” (Parents’ Review, volume 14, p. 961). She goes on to write, “It represents the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, on the Day of Pentecost, not only upon prophets, apostles and holy men and women, but upon …
At the 2016 Charlotte Mason Institute Eastern Conference, I attended a workshop entitled “Charlotte Mason’s Great Recognition.” The workshop explored in detail the famous fresco in the Spanish Chapel at Santa Maria Novella, described in many places in Mason’s collected writings. To be sure, I already knew that the phrase “Great Recognition” was not meant to describe an “a-ha” …