The Monk by the Sea

The Monk by the Sea - painting by Caspar David Friedrich in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. This painting is the 207^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 342^nd most popular painting in English Wikipedia. Article “The Monk by the Sea” in English Wikipedia has 43.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 25 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in German Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “The Monk by the Sea”, its content was written by 42 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 280 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The Monk by the Sea is on the 342^nd place in local ranking of paintings in English Wikipedia and on the 207^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 48 times in English Wikipedia and cited 211 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #71813 in October 2024
• Global: #59027 in May 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #214113 in November 2013
• Global: #56394 in September 2014

There are 17 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	German (de) Der Mönch am Meer		96.4888
2	English (en) The Monk by the Sea		43.1639
3	Slovenian (sl) Menih ob morski obali		42.3694
4	Turkish (tr) Deniz Kenarında Keşiş		37.2382
5	Chinese (zh) 海邊修士		34.1751
6	Hebrew (he) הנזיר שעל שפת הים		32.1904
7	Japanese (ja) 海辺の修道士		28.8281
8	Greek (el) Μοναχός στην θάλασσα		27.0543
9	Catalan (ca) Monjo vora el mar		26.8096
10	Armenian (hy) Քահանան ծովեզրին		26.5206

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

The most popular language versions of the article "The Monk by the Sea" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	German (de) Der Mönch am Meer		615 889
2	English (en) The Monk by the Sea		472 095
3	Italian (it) Monaco in riva al mare		291 013
4	French (fr) Le Moine au bord de la mer		96 433
5	Russian (ru) Монах у моря		48 787
6	Polish (pl) Mnich nad morzem		47 357
7	Turkish (tr) Deniz Kenarında Keşiş		20 469
8	Hebrew (he) הנזיר שעל שפת הים		13 687
9	Chinese (zh) 海邊修士		9 576
10	Greek (el) Μοναχός στην θάλασσα		8 627

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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 "The Monk by the Sea" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) The Monk by the Sea		3 624
2	German (de) Der Mönch am Meer		2 541
3	Italian (it) Monaco in riva al mare		2 128
4	French (fr) Le Moine au bord de la mer		569
5	Russian (ru) Монах у моря		412
6	Chinese (zh) 海邊修士		241
7	Japanese (ja) 海辺の修道士		208
8	Turkish (tr) Deniz Kenarında Keşiş		125
9	Polish (pl) Mnich nad morzem		114
10	Hebrew (he) הנזיר שעל שפת הים		77

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

Language versions of the article "The Monk by the Sea" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Mönch am Meer		98
2	English (en) The Monk by the Sea		42
3	Italian (it) Monaco in riva al mare		32
4	French (fr) Le Moine au bord de la mer		29
5	Polish (pl) Mnich nad morzem		14
6	Russian (ru) Монах у моря		13
7	Greek (el) Μοναχός στην θάλασσα		12
8	Hebrew (he) הנזיר שעל שפת הים		10
9	Turkish (tr) Deniz Kenarında Keşiş		9
10	Esperanto (eo) La Monaĥo ĉe la Maro		5

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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 "The Monk by the Sea" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Der Mönch am Meer		2
2	Armenian (hy) Քահանան ծովեզրին		1
3	Japanese (ja) 海辺の修道士		1
4	Russian (ru) Монах у моря		1
5	Arabic (ar) الراهب قرب البحر		0
6	Catalan (ca) Monjo vora el mar		0
7	Greek (el) Μοναχός στην θάλασσα		0
8	English (en) The Monk by the Sea		0
9	Esperanto (eo) La Monaĥo ĉe la Maro		0
10	French (fr) Le Moine au bord de la mer		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 "The Monk by the Sea" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	French (fr) Le Moine au bord de la mer		56
2	English (en) The Monk by the Sea		48
3	German (de) Der Mönch am Meer		28
4	Russian (ru) Монах у моря		28
5	Greek (el) Μοναχός στην θάλασσα		10
6	Turkish (tr) Deniz Kenarında Keşiş		9
7	Japanese (ja) 海辺の修道士		7
8	Italian (it) Monaco in riva al mare		4
9	Polish (pl) Mnich nad morzem		4
10	Swedish (sv) Munk vid havet		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الراهب قرب البحر
ca	Catalan Monjo vora el mar
de	German Der Mönch am Meer
el	Greek Μοναχός στην θάλασσα
en	English The Monk by the Sea
eo	Esperanto La Monaĥo ĉe la Maro
fr	French Le Moine au bord de la mer
he	Hebrew הנזיר שעל שפת הים
hy	Armenian Քահանան ծովեզրին
it	Italian Monaco in riva al mare
ja	Japanese 海辺の修道士
pl	Polish Mnich nad morzem
ru	Russian Монах у моря
sl	Slovenian Menih ob morski obali
sv	Swedish Munk vid havet
tr	Turkish Deniz Kenarında Keşiş
zh	Chinese 海邊修士

Best Rank

English: #214113 11.2013

Global: #56394 09.2014

Best Rank

English: #71813 10.2024

Global: #59027 05.2012

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