The achievements of the research programme have covered part of Slovenia's cultural heritage, thereby contributing to the strengthening of Slovene national identity. The broadening of research topics to the nearby regions of Central Europe and the Adriatic has facilitated a more objective evaluation of the phenomena researched, as well as the adoption and further development of methods that would not have been possible in the present scope if we had focused only on Slovenia. The results of the research therefore contribute to a better knowledge and evaluation of Slovene artistic creativity from the very beginnings to the present, to the strengthening of art history as a scientific discipline in Slovenia and to the modernisation of its methodology.