Leonardo Coccorante was an Italian painter who was active in Naples in the early 18th Century. He is best known for his large highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins and often included small figures in the foreground to emphasize the enormity of the ruins.

A pupil of Orizzonte, he was employed as a decorator at the court of Charles de Bourbon.

Museum Collections:
Italian Museo di Capodimonte (Naples, Italy), da.) and Museo Regionale Agostino Pepoli (Sicily, Italy) are among the public collections holding paintings by Leonardo Coccorante.

Leonardo Coccorante was born in 1680 in Naples, Italy. He is best known for his architectural capricci depicting classical ruins populated with animated figures. Coccorante studied in Naples with Angelo Maria Costa, who encouraged him to produce scenic views, in the style of stage sets, a very popular local genre at the time. Coccorante was one of the most successful painters in the genre, and between 1737 and 1739, he went on to work in the court of Charles VII of Naples. His projects included the decoration of the Palazzo Reale on the occasion of the betrothal of Charles III of Spain, King of the Two Sicilies, and Marie-Amelia of Saxony. Among the most talented of the circle of Luca Giordano, Coccorante was called Il Giordano di Prospettiva.

Leonardo Coccorante was born in Naples in 1680. According to De Domenici (1774), he received his artistic training with the Sicilian painter Angelo Maria Costa, one of the most important early 17th century Neapolitan landscape painters. Coccorante received commissions by King Charles of Bourbon and the nobility in Italy and abroad.

His paintings show fantastic architecture, landscapes and ruins, which feature a virtuoso lightning. Works by Coccorante can be found in the collections of important museums, including the Louvre, the Museum Grenoble and the Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco in Milan.