London, Aug 31 (IANS) A billboard featuring Hollywood actress Julianne Moore posing naked for a fashion campaign has been banned by officials in Venice, Italy after it was deemed ‘inappropriate’.

The ‘Far From Heaven’ star stripped off for a recent shoot for Bulgari handbags and plans were in place to erect a promotional poster in the city’s famous St Mark’s Square but Venice’s recently elected mayor, Giorgio Orsoni, deemed the picture – which shows Moore posing with only a handbag protecting her modesty – too risque, reports telegraph.co.uk.

‘An advertisement showing a nude woman on a divan is not appropriate for St Mark’s Square,’ said Orsoni.

The billboard will instead show less racy images of the actress fully dressed and modelling Bulgari jewellery.