Medusa (Rubens)

Head of Medusa - painting by Peter Paul Rubens in Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. This painting is the 1365^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of paintings and the 973^rd most popular painting in Italian Wikipedia. Article “Medusa (Rubens)” in Italian Wikipedia has 19.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 3 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Medusa (Rubens)”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 92 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Head of Medusa is on the 973^rd place in local ranking of paintings in Italian Wikipedia and on the 1365^th place in global ranking of paintings in all the time.

The article is cited 8 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 505 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #8364 in August 2007
• Global: #252899 in October 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #66968 in February 2008
• Global: #111419 in January 2023

There are 10 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) Medusa (Rubens)		46.9519
2	Japanese (ja) メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)		41.5832
3	Norwegian (no) Medusa (Rubens)		22.8222
4	Estonian (et) Medusa (Rubens)		22.2399
5	Italian (it) Medusa (Rubens)		19.9066
6	Czech (cs) Medusa (Rubens)		17.0434
7	French (fr) Méduse (Rubens)		15.3789
8	Ukrainian (uk) Медуза (картина Рубенса)		5.6091
9	Latin (la) Medusa (Rubens)		2.8458
10	Dutch (nl) Medusa (Rubens)		1.7149

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Medusa (Rubens)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Medusa (Rubens)		114 535
2	Italian (it) Medusa (Rubens)		51 913
3	French (fr) Méduse (Rubens)		29 989
4	Dutch (nl) Medusa (Rubens)		18 768
5	Czech (cs) Medusa (Rubens)		11 136
6	Japanese (ja) メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)		5 183
7	Ukrainian (uk) Медуза (картина Рубенса)		5 138
8	Latin (la) Medusa (Rubens)		1 937
9	Estonian (et) Medusa (Rubens)		1 450
10	Norwegian (no) Medusa (Rubens)		1 222

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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 "Medusa (Rubens)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Medusa (Rubens)		1 202
2	Japanese (ja) メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)		272
3	Italian (it) Medusa (Rubens)		155
4	French (fr) Méduse (Rubens)		150
5	Czech (cs) Medusa (Rubens)		139
6	Dutch (nl) Medusa (Rubens)		68
7	Estonian (et) Medusa (Rubens)		17
8	Ukrainian (uk) Медуза (картина Рубенса)		17
9	Norwegian (no) Medusa (Rubens)		10
10	Latin (la) Medusa (Rubens)		6

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Italian (it) Medusa (Rubens)		23
2	English (en) Medusa (Rubens)		18
3	French (fr) Méduse (Rubens)		14
4	Dutch (nl) Medusa (Rubens)		12
5	Latin (la) Medusa (Rubens)		7
6	Ukrainian (uk) Медуза (картина Рубенса)		7
7	Czech (cs) Medusa (Rubens)		3
8	Estonian (et) Medusa (Rubens)		3
9	Norwegian (no) Medusa (Rubens)		3
10	Japanese (ja) メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)		2

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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 "Medusa (Rubens)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Czech (cs) Medusa (Rubens)		0
2	English (en) Medusa (Rubens)		0
3	Estonian (et) Medusa (Rubens)		0
4	French (fr) Méduse (Rubens)		0
5	Italian (it) Medusa (Rubens)		0
6	Japanese (ja) メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)		0
7	Latin (la) Medusa (Rubens)		0
8	Dutch (nl) Medusa (Rubens)		0
9	Norwegian (no) Medusa (Rubens)		0
10	Ukrainian (uk) Медуза (картина Рубенса)		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 "Medusa (Rubens)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Medusa (Rubens)		188
2	Japanese (ja) メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)		147
3	French (fr) Méduse (Rubens)		107
4	Dutch (nl) Medusa (Rubens)		36
5	Ukrainian (uk) Медуза (картина Рубенса)		10
6	Italian (it) Medusa (Rubens)		8
7	Latin (la) Medusa (Rubens)		4
8	Czech (cs) Medusa (Rubens)		2
9	Estonian (et) Medusa (Rubens)		2
10	Norwegian (no) Medusa (Rubens)		1

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#	Language	Value
cs	Czech Medusa (Rubens)
en	English Medusa (Rubens)
et	Estonian Medusa (Rubens)
fr	French Méduse (Rubens)
it	Italian Medusa (Rubens)
ja	Japanese メドゥーサの首 (ルーベンス)
la	Latin Medusa (Rubens)
nl	Dutch Medusa (Rubens)
no	Norwegian Medusa (Rubens)
uk	Ukrainian Медуза (картина Рубенса)

Best Rank

Italian: #66968 02.2008

Global: #111419 01.2023

Best Rank

Italian: #8364 08.2007

Global: #252899 10.2014

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