Maria Carmen Vicenta Petra Zaragoza de Araneta y Rojas, also known as Carmen Zaragoza y Roxas (June 29, 1867 – June 29, 1943),[1] was an early Filipina artist.
In 1892, she created the masterpiece known as Dos Inteligencias (Two Intellectuals), a painting that won her a prize during the 1892 anniversary of Christopher Columbus and his discovery of America.
[2][3] Zaragoza helped to establish the late 19th-century magazine La Ilustracion Filipina del Oriente, founded by her father Jose Zaragoza y Aranquizna.
[4] Zaragoza was married to politician and businessman Gregorio S. Araneta in 1896.
They had 14 children whom they raised in her family's ancestral house on Hidalgo Street (formerly Calle San Sebastian) in Quiapo, Manila.