Director Ridley Scott and the actor Joaquin Phoenix They took a tour of the Prado Museum in which they were able to contemplate Goya’s work during his visit to Madrid to promote the film ‘Napoleón’, which hits theaters this Friday.

Scott and Phoenix asked to consider the main Goya’s works that portray the era marked by the french emperor, as reported by those responsible for the museum this Wednesday in a statement.

Accompanied by Alejandro Vergara, one of the heads of conservation at the Prado Museum, the tour, which took place yesterday, Tuesday, began in Las Meninas and room 12 and continued with the visit of the Family of Charles IV, the Majesties and the Marchioness of Santa Cruz.

During the visit they stopped especially to contemplate the Black Paintings, like Saturn and the Cudgel Duel and in the works of May 2 and 3 that represent the Madrid revolt and the retaliation for this action. On the way out, Joaquin Phoenix stopped at the Torrijos shootings by Antonio Gisbert.

The new ‘Napoleon’ film that will be released soon portrays the rise and Bonaparte’s fall from a double perspective: the battlefield, with spectacular sequences in which there were up to eleven cameras involved and his obsessive relationship with his wife Josefina.