# Hippocrates Visits Democritus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHEYN, Jacob de II]() - Date: 1551-1600 - Technique: Pen and brown ink, 173 x 228 mm ## Commentary In this late drawing by the artist, we can see a painterly approach created by the dark bundles of lines and the parts left white. Democritus, the famous laughing philosopher - who is predominantly depicted with the crying Heraclitus - was so utterly fascinated by anatomy that he was thought to be bordering on madness and so Hippocrates, the famous physician, was called to see him. De Gheyn depicted the scene according to a uniquely original concept: the obsessed Democritus is about to slay a sheep to quench his thirst for knowledge. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Transience]() - [Farm with a Man Milking a Cow]() - [Four Studies of a Woman]() - [Four Studies of Frogs]() - [Neptune and Amphitrite]() - [Peaceful Couple]() - [Studies of heads]() - [The Exercise of Armes \(details\)]() - [Two Witches with a Cat]() - [Vanitas Still-Life \(detail\)]() - [Vanitas Still-Life]() - [Woman and Child looking at a Picture Book]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()