Summary: An exhibition catalogue showing a private pre-Columbian collection of over 150 pieces from Mesoamerica and South America, exhibited to the public for the first time, and accompanied by some rare objects that belonged to the Medici Collection, the first of the rulers of Europe to recognize objects from “the Indies” as works of art. The World that Wasn’t There tells the story of that part of humanity that became known to the West after the voyages of Columbus and other explorers: from North America to Patagonia, passing through Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile. It is a journey into the heart of the cultures of Mesoamerica–from the best known and most ancient, such as the Olmecs, Maya, and Aztecs, to the spectacular vestiges of Teotihuacan, Veracruz, and Nayarit. It continues among the remains in South America, with the ceramic Venuses of Valdivia in Ecuador, the artefacts made in gold by the Tairona civilization, the ceramics of the Incas, and the fabrics and pots produced in the Nazca region. In other words, a vast landscape of pre-Columbian civilizations stretching from Alaska to Patagonia that prospered from when the first humans arrived in the Americas from Asia. The exhibition and its catalogue illustrate the collection of pre-Columbian art of Giancarlo and Inti Ligabue. Businessman, palaeontologist, archaeological and anthropological scholar, Giancarlo Ligabue (1931–2015) was the founder of the Centro Studi e Ricerche Ligabue in Venice.

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