GIUSTI, Antonio

Italian sculptor, part of a family of sculptors active in France. Antonio was born either outside Florence (San Martino) or outside Settignano (Corbignano). He came to France with his brother, Giovanni in 1504 or 1505 and settled in Tours. They changed their name to Juste. Antonio is known to have revisited Italy between 1508 and 1516, during which period he owned a house in Carrara where Michelangelo sometimes stayed when supervising the quarrying of marble. He may therefore have brought back information about artistic events in Italy, thus introducing certain influences from Italy which appear in the later French sculpture of the Giusti (Juste) family.

His son, Just de Juste (c. 1505-c. 1559), was sculptor and etcher.