Image-based Similarity Search
With the image similarity search, you can explore an inventory of several million automatically recognised images. The images include both individual illustrations (photos, graphics, paintings) and illustrations in books or manuscripts. The search criterion applied relates to the similarity of image motifs according to purely outward characteristics such as colours, textures or contrasts.
You can search for people, animals, plants, landscapes, coats of arms, book covers, miniatures or initials. Give it a go and search for "digital twins".

![Harnack, Adolf [Theologe 1851-1930]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000015479/289,311,2197,2783/400,/0/default.jpg)





![Schuchardt, Hugo Ernst [Philologe 1842-1927]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000111884/85,94,2854,3749/400,/0/default.jpg)



![Lubbock, John [Zoologe 1834-1913]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000018099/163,818,2797,3163/400,/0/default.jpg)





![Klinger, Max [Maler, Radierer, Bildhauer 1857-1920]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000005098/315,420,2718,2764/400,/0/default.jpg)


















![Saussure, Ferdinand de [Philologe 1857-1913]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000111882/86,98,2846,3748/400,/0/default.jpg)












![Brenner, Eduard [Anglist, Staatssekretär 1888-1970]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000178434/197,846,3012,2388/400,/0/default.jpg)