Once the interior restoration had been completed, plans were made to renovate the bell tower and the façade, on which Giuseppe Partini had opened a rose window. Among the various proposals the one made by architects Vittorio Mariani and Gaetano Ceccherelli prevailed: therefore, between 1894 and 1913, the fifteenth-century portal with the sculpture of Saint Francis was dismantled leaving only the brick façade. The portal, attributed to the artist Francesco di Giorgio Martini and now the frame of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina’s portrait, was moved to the church’s nave while the sculpture of the saint was placed in the transept. The façade was completed with a new monumental entrance and four sculptures of the Evangelists, made by Amalia Dupré, Vittorio Mariani and Gaetano Ceccherelli, were placed around the rose window. The bell tower, built by Paolo Posi in 1763, maintains its original structure but the brickwork has been exposed. In the nineties frescoes from Porta Romana and Porta Pispini were moved to the church's counter- façade and in 1997 some seventeenth-century paintings, made after the fire of 1655, were positioned in the nave. The paintings, kept in the art gallery’s storerooms, have been placed in simple metal supports similar to altars. In the year 2000, in line with urban requalification policies, the entire area in front of the church, which was part of the . . .