Chinese internet denizens, furious at China's crack down on what maderines claim is porn, have dressed up images of famous renaissance nudes. Images include Michelangelo's statue "David" shown in a Mao suit while black socks and a strategically placed tie added to Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting of Adam.

The protest began last week after a user of the social networking site Douban.com noted that Titians nude "Venus of Urbino," had been deleted from an online photo album. Douban's administrators told him that 'pornography' would endanger the site's operations.

Protest's organisers asked Internet users to clothe artwork to "save" it from the censors. One Internet user drew red underpants on the leaning, joined towers of state-run China Central Television's headquarters in Beijing. It seems to have had an effect.  Douban said it had received permission to show the Titian snap as the artist had intended it.