Now that I've got your attention, you might want to check out this on-line gallery at Princeton University. A group there recently canvassed departments asking them to submit research images from science that were artistic.
The seductive Einstein image is titled "Knowledge is Beautiful" and was entered by a student in Comparative Literature studies in the English Department. Read the description. It is exactly what you would expect! There are lots of other interesting images there, with intersting stories. It is worth a bit of time to check them out! (Thanks to Dynamist Virginia Postrel for the pointer).
If you like this area of "art", you'll be interested to know that NASA has been doing this for years at The Astronomy Picture of the Day.
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