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Shakespeare's funerary monument is located inside Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, mounted on the north wall of the chancel. This is the same church where Shakespeare was baptised and where he was buried in the chancel two days after his death.
Shakespeare's funerary monument has traditionally been attributed to the sculptor Gerard Johnson. The historian Lena Cowen Orlin challenges this, arguing it was more likely modelled from life by Gerard's brother, Nicholas Johnson.
The effigy and cushion on Shakespeare's funerary monument are carved from a single piece of bluish Cotswold limestone. The columns are black polished marble, the putti and skull are sandstone, the capitals and bases are gilded sandstone, and the inlaid panels are black touchstone.
The Latin epitaph on Shakespeare's funerary monument translates as "a Pylian in judgement, a Socrates in genius, a Maro in art" and "the earth covers him, the people mourn him, Olympus possesses him". A smaller inscription beneath the English poem states that Shakespeare died in 1616, in his 53rd year, on the 23rd of April.
The exact date Shakespeare's funerary monument was erected is not known, but it must have been before 1623. That year, the First Folio of Shakespeare's works was published with a preface poem by Leonard Digges referring to "thy Stratford moniment".
In 1793, the Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone persuaded the vicar to paint Shakespeare's funerary monument white, matching the Neoclassical taste of the period. The white paint was removed in 1861, and the monument was repainted using colours recovered from beneath it.