Leonardo Coccorante

Training under Jan Frans van Bloemen, Angelo Maria Costa and Gabrielle Ricciardelli is recorded. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape. Places of work recorded in the authority are Naples. Work by Leonardo Coccorante is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Ireland, National Museum in Warsaw, National Museum in Kraków and Brooklyn Museum.

Leonardo Coccorante was born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples. He studied or worked under Nicola Casissa, the Flemish landscape painter Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662–1749), Angelo Maria Costa (1670–1721), and finally with Gabriele Ricciardelli (active between 1741 and 1777). From 1737 to 1739, he was employed decorating the royal palace of Naples. Coccorante died in Naples in 1750.

He is best known for his large highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins. He often included small figures in the foreground to emphasize the expansiveness of the ruins. Coccorante is classified as a veduta (vista) painter. Public collections holding paintings by Coccorante include the Museo Regionale Agostino Pepoli (Trapani, Italy), Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco (Milan, Italy), the Louvre, the Musée départemental de l'Oise (Beauvais, France), the Museum of Grenoble (France), the Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, Florida), and the Honolulu Museum of Art,.

• Illustration — Port of Ostia During a Tempest, oil on canvas, 1740s, Lowe Art Museum • Illustration — Capriccio of architectural ruins with a seascape beyond, oil on canvas • Illustration — Port of Tarento, oil on canvas painting, 1738 • Illustration — Capriccio of classical ruins with figures, oil on canvas • Illustration — Capriccio of ruins with figures under stormy night sky, oil on canvas • Illustration — Architecture with figures, oil on canvas • Illustration — Architectural Capriccio with figures, dawn. Oil on canvas, Collezione M (private collection) Rome • Illustration — Architectural Capriccio with figures, dusk. Oil on canvas, Collezione M (private collection) Rome