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.
He has published several monographs and a high issue of articles in specialized journals on Spanish Renaissance and Baroque art and participated as speaker in several national and international congresses. 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. Sculpture from the 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 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 introducción del renacimiento. A brilliant promoter and patron", 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 (in 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 focused on the 18th century are the book coordinated by Juan de Goyeneche y su tiempo. Los Navarros en Madrid, (Pamplona, 1999) and her partnership in the Catalog 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 Catalog Monumental de Navarra, consisting of 9 volumes (Pamplona 1980-1997), which has collected for more than twenty years the artistic heritage of Navarra in its entirety. She has been director of the series Navarra en el Arte, formed by forty-one fascicles, and published by Diario de Navarra in 1994.
She has curated the following exhibitions: Salve, 700 years of Marian Art and Devotion, Pamplona (November 1994- February 1995), Vicente Berdusán, Museo de Navarra (1998) and Don Juan de Goyeneche and the triumph of the Navarrese in the Hispanic monarchy of the 18th century, Real Academia de San Fernando de Madrid and Iglesia de Recoletas de Pamplona (2005-2006). She has organized 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 directed about thirty doctoral thesis and about fifty works of research, thesis of Master and dissertations, most of them published.
She has been a promoter and founding member of the Ateneo Navarro. She is a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid and of the Academy of Santa Isabel de Hungría in Seville, member of committee advisor of several specialized magazines, such as file Español de Arte ( CSIC), Artigrama (University of Zaragoza), and laboratory de Arte (University of Seville) and President of the Chair de Patrimonio y Arte Navarro.
