Stumbled across the site Totallyhistory.com, a site intended to help (young?) people who study history. For some reason, they fell the need to censor artworks which have nudity in them, making them actually look a lot more pornographic than they really are. See e.g. their page on the Danaë by Rembrandt or the Samson and Delilah by Rubens. Durer's Adam and Eve even has a page but no illustration at all. Of course, the rather graphic violence in Judith beheading Holofernes by Caravaggio doesn't need to be censored. Strange priorities, strange way of teaching about history.
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