This stretch of the Grand Canal is dominated by the two huge palazzi on the south side. On the far left is part of the Palazzo Corner della Regina, which took only three years to build, 1724-7, to the design of Domenico Rossi. It takes its name from the most famous woman of the Corner family, Caterina Cornaro (1454-1510), who was born in an earlier house on this site and became the last monarch of the Kingdom of Cyprus, which she ceded to Venice in 1489. The second building after that is the Palazzo Pesaro, with the Palazzo Rezzonico one of the largest and most sumptuous Baroque palaces in the city. Both were designed by Baldassare Longhena, and both were completed long after his death. Here, as at the Palazzo Rezzonico, only the first floor of the façade was finished by then, the second piano nobile being finished by Antonio Gaspari in c. 1710. Since 1902 it has housed the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art. Further along is seen the pediment crowning the façade of the church of San Stae.