In later years my research has centered upon the placement of visual art in a larger history which links together the developments of culture and nature and which has the concept of evolution as a common denominator. Hereby I build a brige between my two original periodical interests: Late Medieval and Renaissance art and art after 1900.

The first outcome of this research is my habilitation thesis (2005). published in English as Landscape as World Picture: Tracing Cultural Evolution in Images (2009, 2 vols.).

Furthermore, I together with Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen am editor of a forthcoming anthology, Totalitarian Art and Modernity.