Socrates Discovers Alcibiades in the Women's Quarters

Francesco Hayez worked together with Giovanni Demin at the Papadopoli residence at Santa Marina. The scene shown here is painted in the small circular room of the palace. Hayez was faithful to rigorous principles, both in his settings and in the way he groups his figures, scattered and clearly defined.

The subject of this fresco was later brought into focus with a graphic study by Giovanni Demin.