As for Mannerism in development, “it can be seen in the execution of John the Baptist”, created around 1550. Here Bassano most consistently professes “an irrational, subjective vision of the world.
In combination with the painful-clear “elaboration of details, this irrationality gives the picture a special anxiety and fantasy.
Related Paintings
L’exécution de Jean-Baptiste – Jacopo Bassano 
John the Baptist in the Desert by Jacopo Bassano 
Madonna and Child with John the Baptist by Jacopo Bassano 
Portrait of a man by Jacopo Bassano 
Portrait of a Woman by Jacopo Bassano 
The Crucifixion by Jacopo Bassano 
The worship of the shepherds by Jacopo Bassano 
Madonna and Child, St. Joseph and John the Baptist by Jacopo Pontormo