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".



















![Haniel, Franz [Unternehmer 1779-1868]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000135954/73,232,1396,1502/400,/0/default.jpg)




![Paladini, Arcangela [Malerin 1599-1622]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000112866/160,203,2719,3936/400,/0/default.jpg)

![Moncada, Francisco de [Politiker, Schriftsteller, Historiker 1586-1635]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000235648/40,11,3262,4591/400,/0/default.jpg)


![Keller, Gottfried [Dichter 1819-1890]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000016934/133,200,2136,2716/400,/0/default.jpg)










![Berryer, Pierre Antoine [Rechtsanwalt 1790-1868]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000135495/148,124,2604,3382/400,/0/default.jpg)
![Egmont, Lamoral von [Feldherr 1522-1568]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000238084/1734,1631,1750,2318/400,/0/default.jpg)







![Beck, Johann Jodocus [Jurist 1684-1744]](https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bav:BSB-BAR-0000000000077932/84,121,3266,3957/400,/0/default.jpg)