A Life of Lines and Stone Thomas Lefèbvre moved through the courts of the Baroque era, shifting between the delicate application of paint and the heavy demands of architecture. Born in the Brussels metropolitan area, he began his career far from the grand stone structures that would later define his legacy. His early years were spent as a peintre en miniature at the court of Margrave Wilhelm in Baden-Baden. In those small, intimate works, one finds the precision required for a man who would eventually oversee the reconstruction of entire cities. He was a man of many titles, moving from the r…