Duccio's Maesta

Predella: The Annunciation and the early life of Christ

2: The Nativity and associated prophet.

Ezekiel

National Gallery of Art, Washington (Both images)

Scroll text: Porta haec clausa erit: non aperietur et vir non transibit per eam.
This gate shall be shut , it shall not be opened , and no man shall enter in by it. (Ezekiel 44, v2)
(A reference to the virginity of Mary)

The setting is a cross between the Byzantine tradition (a cave) and the later tradition (a stable) 

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