# Socrates Discovers Alcibiades in the Women's Quarters [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DEMIN, Giovanni]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Drawing ## Commentary The subject provided the artist with an opportunity to imagine a neo-Hellenistic interior. Female nudes, shown in different poses, appear in this episode in a moral vein. Hayez had already painted a fresco on this subject in the small round room of the Palazzo Papadopoli. Now Demin brought it into focus with a graphic study in which it would appear he intended his painting to emulate the measured falseness of Canova's marbles. ## Related artworks - [Encounter of Hylas and the Nymphs]() - [Wall decoration with grotteschi]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()