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María Clara de los Santos is a fictional character in José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tángere (1887). The beautiful María Clara is the childhood sweetheart and fiancée of the protagonist, Crisóstomo Ibarra , who returns to his Filipino hometown of San Diego to marry her.
The María Clara gown, historically known as the traje de mestiza during the Spanish colonial era, [1] [2] is a type of traditional dress worn by women in the Philippines. It is an aristocratic version of the baro't saya .
The name of the dress is an eponym to María Clara, the mestiza heroine of Filipino hero José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere (Latin for "Touch Me Not"). [2] The woman's clothing in the painting is the reason why the masterpiece is alternately referred to as María Clara. It is one of the few canvases done by Luna illustrating Filipino culture.
Maria Clara of the Child Jesus (15 June 1843 – 1 December 1899) — born Libânia do Carmo Galvão Mexia de Moura Telles de Albuquerque was a Portuguese religious sister in the Roman Catholic Church who established the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Conception in Lisbon. [1] [2] She led the congregation as its superior. [3]
Marie-Claire; Head, Clara and Maria, a municipality in Canada; Clara María Ochoa, a Colombian film producer; Clara Maria Pope, a British painter and botanical artist; Clara Maria of Pomerania-Barth, a member of the House of Griffins and by her two marriages Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin-Ivenack and Brunswick-Dannenberg-Hitzacker
Maria Clara Pacheco (born 16 July 2003) is a Brazilian taekwondo practitioner. She was a bronze medalist at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships. Early life
Maria Clara Machado (3 April 1921, in Belo Horizonte — 30 April 2001, in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian playwright, who specialized on plays for children. Daughter of writer Aníbal Machado , she studied theater in Paris .
Maria Clara Trujillo (Macala) (born 27 November 1948) is an artist and sculptor from Bogotá, Colombia. She is a daughter of the painter Sergio Trujillo Magnenat and the ceramist Sara Dávila . She grew up in an environment that cultivated her passion for artistic expression.