Dr. María Concepción García Gainza

Began her studies at teaching at the University of Navarra in 1962. Professor of Art History at the universities of Seville and Murcia. Professor emeritus of department of History of Art at the University of Navarra. 

issue He has published several monographs and a large number of articles in specialised journals on Spanish Renaissance and Baroque art and has participated as speaker in several national and international conferences. His programs of study focuses on the history of Italian and Spanish sculpture of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Some of his publications are: La escultura romanista navarra. Disciples and followers of Juan de Anchieta, 1969 (2nd ed., 1986), Renaissance-Sculpture in Historia Universal del Arte, vol. 6, (Espasa Calpe, 1996); Renaissance-Sculpture, in Historia del Arte Hispánico, publishing house Alhambra, vol. III, 1980; Renaissance. Escultura de la publishing house Akal, (Madrid, 1998); "Un programa de Mujeres Ilustres del Renacimiento", Goya, 1987, pp. 137-141; "Las empresas artísticas de Don Pedro Villalón, Deán de Tudela" in El Palacio Decanal de Tudela, 2000, pp. 53-70, "Actuaciones de Actuaciones de Mujeres Ilustres del Renacimiento" in El Palacio Decanal de Tudela, 2000, pp. 53-70. 53-70, "Actuaciones de un obispo postridentino en la catedral de Pamplona", in Lecturas de Historia del Arte, Ephialte, Vitoria, 1992, pp. 110-124; El Arte del Renacimiento en Navarra, Pamplona, 2006 (in partnership with R. Fernández Gracia and P. Echeverría Goñi), "La introduccción del renacimiento. Un brillante promotor y mecenas", in La Catedral de Tudela, Pamplona, 2006, pp. 263-285, and Juan de Anchieta, escultor del Renacimiento, Madrid, 2008. Another line he has developed is goldsmithing in Orfebrería de la Catedral y del Museo Diocesano de Pamplona, Pamplona, 1978 (at partnership), and Dibujos Antiguos de los plateros de Pamplona, Pamplona, 1991 (218 pp). A specialist in 18th-century Spanish sculpture, he has published El escultor Luis Salvador Carmona ( 1990), Luis Salvador Carmona en San Fermín de los Navarros (1990) and La escultura cortesana del siglo XVIII. Historia 16, no. 92, (Madrid, 1993). Other works focusing on the 18th century include the book coordinated by Juan de Goyeneche y su tiempo. Los navarros en Madrid, (Pamplona, 1999) and her partnership in the Catalogue of the exhibition Juan de Goyeneche y su triunfo de los Navarros en el siglo XVIII, (Pamplona, 2005). He has recently published "El palacio del marqués de San Adrián de Tudela y su programa de "Mujeres ilustres", Cuadernos del Marqués de San Adrián. Revista de Humanities, nº 9, and the monograph Alonso Cano y el Crucificado de Lekaroz (Pamplona, 2015).

She has been director and co-author of the Monumental Catalogue of Navarre, consisting of 9 volumes (Pamplona 1980-1997), which has collected the artistic heritage of Navarre in its entirety for more than twenty years. She was the director of the series Navarra en el Arte, consisting of forty-one fascicles, published by Diario de Navarra in 1994.

She has curated the following exhibitions: Salve, 700 años de Arte y Devoción mariana, Pamplona (November 1994- February 1995), Vicente Berdusán, Museo de Navarra (1998) and Don Juan de Goyeneche y el triunfo de los navarros en la monarquía hispánica del siglo XVIII, Real Academia de San Fernando de Madrid and Iglesia de Recoletas de Pamplona (2005-2006). She has organised scientific meetings and congresses such as Jornardas Nacionales sobre el Renacimiento Español ( Pamplona and Estella, 1990), and Ciudades Amuralladas ( Pamplona, 2005).

As director of research, she has supervised some thirty doctoral thesis and nearly fifty dissertations research, thesis and Master's theses, most of which have been published.

She has been a promoter and founding member of the Ateneo Navarro. She is a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and of the Academia de Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, member of committee advisor of several specialised magazines, such as file Español de Arte (CSIC), Artigrama (University of Zaragoza), and laboratory de Arte (University of Seville) and President of Chair de Patrimonio y Arte Navarro.