Instead, for colour effects, Gothic architects relied on stained-glass windows, which had now become very much larger than in the Romanesque period. In other painting genres the new style had a significant impact: thus, altarpiece art and illuminated manuscripts were all revitalized by the Gothic idiom.
Note that, a meter is a music term that is used to refer to the arrangement of the rhythms of a piece of music by means of a pattern of either high or low beats.