Antonin Liatard

Antonin Liatard (1993, France) holds doctorates from the Université de Bourgogne and the Université catholique de Louvain. He was a research fellow at INHA (2018-2023) and a temporary teaching and research associate at Université Paris Nanterre (2024-2026). His work focuses on ecclesiastical decoration from the late 16th to the second half of the 18th century, from an art-historical and cultural-historical perspective. He is the author of a monograph on the decor of the Chapelle de la Trinité at the Château de Fontainebleau (2024) and several articles on the ornamentation of Jesuit churches in the modern era.

His residency project involves studying the prescriptive framework and distribution networks that enabled the introduction of mirrors into Catholic churches, drawing in particular on the general archives of the Dominicans and Jesuits. Analyzing the function and significance of this type of ornamentation in the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy, the project questions its absence in Italian churches, whereas mirrors are attested in secular decorations on the peninsula. The investigation also focuses on the role of the Roman home in the development of iconographic models for the specular motif, from a theological perspective.