Sistine Chapel ceiling

Sistine Chapel ceiling - cycle of frescoes by Michelangelo. This painting is the 12^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 4^th most popular painting in English Wikipedia. Article “Sistine Chapel ceiling” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 382 references and 22 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Sistine Chapel ceiling” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Sistine Chapel ceiling”, its content was written by 385 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1100 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Sistine Chapel ceiling is on the 4^th place in local ranking of paintings in English Wikipedia and on the 12^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 894 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2930 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #6987 in October 2014
• Global: #11084 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3067 in November 2015
• Global: #6277 in May 2025

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Sistine Chapel ceiling		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Teto da Capela Sistina		100
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sikstin kapellasının tavanı		94.4528
4	Catalan (ca) Volta de la Capella Sixtina		86.6426
5	French (fr) Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine		86.1433
6	Russian (ru) Потолок Сикстинской капеллы		81.0218
7	Turkish (tr) Sistina Şapeli tavanı		80.4198
8	Slovenian (sl) Strop Sikstinske kapele		77.2457
9	Armenian (hy) Սիքստինյան կապելլայի առաստաղ		76.766
10	Italian (it) Volta della Cappella Sistina		76.1929

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sistine Chapel ceiling" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sistine Chapel ceiling		10 479 011
2	Spanish (es) Bóveda de la Capilla Sixtina		1 987 317
3	French (fr) Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine		1 616 613
4	Portuguese (pt) Teto da Capela Sistina		1 177 076
5	Russian (ru) Потолок Сикстинской капеллы		970 637
6	Italian (it) Volta della Cappella Sistina		925 184
7	Japanese (ja) システィーナ礼拝堂天井画		603 065
8	Chinese (zh) 创世纪 (壁画)		579 034
9	Hungarian (hu) A Sixtus-kápolna mennyezetfreskója		343 043
10	Turkish (tr) Sistina Şapeli tavanı		193 196

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Sistine Chapel ceiling" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Sistine Chapel ceiling		35 832
2	Portuguese (pt) Teto da Capela Sistina		12 400
3	Spanish (es) Bóveda de la Capilla Sixtina		5 696
4	French (fr) Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine		5 351
5	Chinese (zh) 创世纪 (壁画)		3 490
6	Japanese (ja) システィーナ礼拝堂天井画		3 252
7	Russian (ru) Потолок Сикстинской капеллы		3 210
8	Italian (it) Volta della Cappella Sistina		2 892
9	Turkish (tr) Sistina Şapeli tavanı		969
10	Hungarian (hu) A Sixtus-kápolna mennyezetfreskója		687

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Sistine Chapel ceiling" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sistine Chapel ceiling		385
2	French (fr) Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine		92
3	Spanish (es) Bóveda de la Capilla Sixtina		84
4	Italian (it) Volta della Cappella Sistina		74
5	Hungarian (hu) A Sixtus-kápolna mennyezetfreskója		72
6	Hebrew (he) תקרת הקפלה הסיסטינית		49
7	Russian (ru) Потолок Сикстинской капеллы		41
8	Chinese (zh) 创世纪 (壁画)		39
9	Norwegian (no) Taket i det sixtinske kapell		38
10	Portuguese (pt) Teto da Capela Sistina		35

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Sistine Chapel ceiling" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Sistine Chapel ceiling		1
2	Arabic (ar) سقف كنيسة سيستينا		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sikstin kapellasının tavanı		0
4	Catalan (ca) Volta de la Capella Sixtina		0
5	Czech (cs) Stropní fresky v Sixtinské kapli		0
6	Spanish (es) Bóveda de la Capilla Sixtina		0
7	Persian (fa) سقف کلیسای سیستین		0
8	French (fr) Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine		0
9	Galician (gl) Bóveda da Capela Sistina		0
10	Hebrew (he) תקרת הקפלה הסיסטינית		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Sistine Chapel ceiling" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Sistine Chapel ceiling		894
2	Georgian (ka) სიქსტის კაპელას ჭერი		293
3	Italian (it) Volta della Cappella Sistina		277
4	French (fr) Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine		185
5	Turkish (tr) Sistina Şapeli tavanı		172
6	Ukrainian (uk) Стеля Сікстинської капели		161
7	Chinese (zh) 创世纪 (壁画)		124
8	Russian (ru) Потолок Сикстинской капеллы		107
9	Indonesian (id) Langit-langit Kapel Sistina		100
10	Arabic (ar) سقف كنيسة سيستينا		87

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سقف كنيسة سيستينا
az	Azerbaijani Sikstin kapellasının tavanı
ca	Catalan Volta de la Capella Sixtina
cs	Czech Stropní fresky v Sixtinské kapli
en	English Sistine Chapel ceiling
es	Spanish Bóveda de la Capilla Sixtina
fa	Persian سقف کلیسای سیستین
fr	French Plafond de la chapelle Sixtine
gl	Galician Bóveda da Capela Sistina
he	Hebrew תקרת הקפלה הסיסטינית
hu	Hungarian A Sixtus-kápolna mennyezetfreskója
hy	Armenian Սիքստինյան կապելլայի առաստաղ
id	Indonesian Langit-langit Kapel Sistina
it	Italian Volta della Cappella Sistina
ja	Japanese システィーナ礼拝堂天井画
ka	Georgian სიქსტის კაპელას ჭერი
lt	Lithuanian Siksto koplyčios lubų freskos
no	Norwegian Taket i det sixtinske kapell
pt	Portuguese Teto da Capela Sistina
ru	Russian Потолок Сикстинской капеллы
sl	Slovenian Strop Sikstinske kapele
sv	Swedish Sixtinska kapellets takfresker
ta	Tamil சிசுடைன் சிற்றாலய உட்கூரை
th	Thai เพดานโบสถ์น้อยซิสทีน
tr	Turkish Sistina Şapeli tavanı
uk	Ukrainian Стеля Сікстинської капели
vi	Vietnamese Trần nhà nguyện Sistina
zh	Chinese 创世纪 (壁画)

Best Rank

English: #3067 11.2015

Global: #6277 05.2025

Best Rank

English: #6987 10.2014

Global: #11084 02.2009

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