The exhibition, described as the world's largest presentation of works by Archibald Knox, features over 200 works by the Manx artist from collections across the British Isles, including pieces of silverware, pewter and jewellery, alongside rarely seen paintings, sketches, manuscripts, ceramics, textiles and furniture.

Jointly curated by Manx National Heritage and the Archibald Knox Forum, the show offers visitors the unique experience of delving into the artistic creation of the leading exponent of the ?British Celtic Revival' design style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while exploring his home country of the Isle of Man, to which Knox's work was intimately attached.  

The opening of the exhibition will be marked by a seminar on 5 and 6 April at the Manx Museum. The event will feature keynote speeches by Stephen Martin and Anthony Bernbaum, two of the world's leading experts on Archibald Knox's life and work. The seminars will explore the artist's Cymric style and the mythical and symbolic influence of Manx culture and history on his work.

The exhibition focuses on The Bride, Klimt's large painting, unfinished due to his unexpected and premature death in February 1918. The exhibition is contextualised with numerous pencil drawings in which Klimt had carefully worked out many of the painting's figures, and further studies found in the artist's last sketchbook. A large number of these studies are now being shown to the public, allowing direct comparison with the painting. As part of preparations for the exhibition, in-depth technical analyses including X-rays were conducted on the painting, the results of which will also be presented.

The exhibition unveils the secrets hiding beneath the surface of Gustav Klimt's famous works: how did the artist apply gold and other precious metals to the canvas? Today's technologies make it possible to look into the inner layers of paint and gain an understanding of Klimt's working process.

Through twenty-four works by Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945) and twelve by Hermen Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959), this exhibition lets us enjoy the coincidences and differences between these two painters. In their works, they both depicted the themes so in vogue in the Paris of the times, such as gypsies, Madrid's maja cultural costumes, and landscapes. Despite both artists having a strong and highly similar influences from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the divergences between their painterly languages and individual focuses were quite clear.