apart. The remains of two west portals, a Coronation of the Virgin (reinstalled on the
interior of the church) and a Hell (in the museum in Soissons), suggest links to sculpture
at Laon, while the stained glass is related to that of Saint-Remi at Reims.
William W.Clark
[See also: LAON; REIMS]
Caviness, Madeline H. “Saint-Yved of Braine: The Primary Sources for Dating the Gothic
Church.” Speculum 59(1984): 524–48.
——. Sumptuous Arts at the Royal Abbeys in Reims and Braine: ornatus elegantiae, varietate
stupendes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990.
McClain, Jeroldean. “A Modern Reconstruction of the West Portals of Saint-Yved at Braine.”
Gesta 24(1985):105–19.
——. “Observations on the Geometric Design of Saint-Yved at Braine.” Zeitschrift für
Kunstgeschichte 49(1986):92–95.
Wochnik, F. “St. Yved zu Braine und die mittelalterlichen Nachfolgebauten (Das Schema von
Braine).” Analecta praemonstratensia 58(1982):252–63.
BRASSART, JOHANNES
(ca. 1396?–1455). Composer, musician, and cleric. Brassart was probably born in
Lowaigne, near Limbourg. His earliest documented position was at Saint-Jean
l’Évangéliste in Liège. He was briefly in Rome during the pontificate of Martin V (ca.
1425) and in 1431–32 served in the papal chapel of Eugenius IV, where he was a
colleague of Guillaume Dufay. Brassart was a member of the chapel at the Council of
Basel (1433–37) and also served as a senior member of the chapels of Emperor
Sigismund (d. 1438), King Albrecht II (d. 1439), and King Frederick III (later emperor).
Brassart held canonries at the church of Our Lady in Tongeren and at the collegiate
church of Saint-Paul in Liège. Over thirty compositions by Brassart survive, primarily
polyphonic Mass movements and motets, similar in style to works of his more famous
contemporary Dufay.
J.Michael Allsen
[See also: DUFAY, GUILLAUME; FAUXBOURDON; ISORHYTHMIC MOTET]
Brassart, Johannes. Opera omnia, ed. Keith Mixter. 2 vols. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology,
1965–71.
Wright, Peter. “Johannes Brassart and Johannes de Sarto.” Plainsong and Medieval Music
1(1992):41–61.
Starr, Pamela. “Communication.” Plainsong and Medieval Music 1 (1992):215–16.
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